Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
13.6 x 8.9cm, 4pp light brown outer folder. Internally a 13.6 x 8.9cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:
Sackcloth
Stars
woven
in
The stars are compared with the rough hew of the flax cloth.
This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
19.5 x 11.8cm, 4pp light brown outer folder with a drawing of a piece of turf. Internally a 19.5 x 11.8cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:
GOLDEN AGE
golden fields
golden flocks
golden flutes
golden hedgerows
golden hives
golden honeycombs
chuckie-stone currency
The repetition of golden initially refers to the light at the end of a summer day but turns into the colour of bees and their honeycombs. The abrupt last line is the key to the poem - a chuckie-stone is a stone that is thrown by children. The poem is a memory of a "golden age" when everything appeared bright and new.
This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.
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Hamberg: Hamberger Kunsthalle, 1990
100 x 68.5cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with an image of a major installation of the Swiss Dead. VG+.
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London: Frith Street Gallery, 1990
13.5 x 13.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a solo show of old and new work by Finlay. the print Scottish Zulu is reproduced on the front, internally gallery details. VG+.
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Nagoya: ICA, 1990
30 x 21cm, 32pp plus printed card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for Boltanski's first one person show in Japan for 20 years (he had previously taken part in a film festival in 1970. Installing a mixture of older and new work in the entire museum - there are 16 installation views in colour here plus an essay in English and Japanese by Fumio Nanjo. VG+.
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Aachen: Neueraachenkunstverein, 1990
21 x 15cm, 20pp. Card covers and printed green dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue for a solo show of mostly printed editions. Ten works reproduced in colour and b/w. Essay by Pia Simig in German. VG+.
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Eindhoven/Grenoble: Van Abbemuseum/Musée de Grenoble, 1990 (not printed on the publication which as a facsimile has the original 1975 publication details on it)
21 x 29cm, 32pp plus card covers. First edition, with black tape spine, of this artist's book which displays the various comic performances by Boltanski where he pretended to be various parental and authority figures in a child's life and common scenes relating to those figures - additionally the artist had painted various backgrounds for each scene. Twenty-two b/w images reproduced in the book, two per page. The performances were Le baiser honteux, La premiere communion, La visite du docteur, L'anniversaire, La toilete du matin. Two b/w images of the artist on every page.
This is the second edition of the book (published as part of the Reconstitution Box) which is exactly the same as the first edition apart from the black tape on the spine found on the original is not here - which is unhelpful to dealers and collectors. However this example is not just VG+ it is signed in ink by Boltanski on the inside cover. The first edition is extremely hard to find, this second edition much less so.
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24 x 16cm, b/w original vintage photographic print by an unknown photographer - on the back "Christian Boltanski dans son atelier Malakof! circa 1990". An unique photograph - photographer unknown.
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24 x 16cm, b/w original vintage photographic print by an unknown photographer - on the back "Christian Boltanski circa 1990". An unique photograph - photographer unknown.
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Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1990
13 x 13cm, 1pp grey-green on white typographic announcement card for a museum, solo show. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
5.0 x 17.8cm, 2pp card. One side has the text: "A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE" accredited to "Gertrude Jekyll" and on the other side "ARROWS ARE ARROWS ARE ARROWS" accredited to "Hereclitus". Jekyll was an influential turn of the century gardener and the quote is an adaption of Shakespeare as is the fake quotation offered as Hereclitian. The latter, of course, stressed the lack of repetition in history. A jokey work. VG+.
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London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1980
22 x 15.8cm, 12pp. Second edition reprint of Boltanski's first ever artist's book showing the photographs from the first edition. The size of the pages differs from the original and does not have the text "On ne remarquera jamaise...