Paris: Art Press, 2010
28.5 x 22cm, 68pp plus wrappers. Single number of this long running art journal which here was dedicated to the work of Boltanski. Articles by Richard Leydier, Georges Didi-Huberman, and the artist. Colour and b/w images throughout. Text in French. VG+.
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London: The Economist, 28th November 2009
30 x 21cm, 106pp plus wrappers. A single number of this important international financial magazine which contains a paid advert by Jonathan Monk on page 104 - "Keith Arnatt was an artist" under the "Business & Personal" section. Arnatt sometimes used commercial tv advertising for works. VG+.
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Paris, Éditions 591, 2009
28.5 x 20.5cm, 200pp plus covers. The extensive and best to date catalogue raisonne of Boltanski's work - that covers the artist's earliest and middle career output (not artist's books which Calle published a separate book) from the earliest films, mail art, sculptures, installations and vitrines/archives. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Text in French.
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21 x 15cm, 24pp (Self cover) An English translation of certain sections of the French book - text only. VG+.
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The silver mylar outerr bag to store the books in,
This example is one of a small number of copies which are signed by both Christian Boltanski and Bob Calle (the author and, coincidentally, the father of Sophie Calle). VG+.
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N.p.: n.p., n.d. (2009)
Small plastic, metal and paper button badge with the title text (which not only reflects the pin aspect of the badge but also other Monk works where pins are pushed through postcards and other items). Limitation unknown. Fine.
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N.p: s.p., n.d.
Two different 84 x 64cm, full colour lithographic prints each with a different view of the artist’s father having fallen through a deckchair while relaxing in his garden. A typically nostalgic use of the artist’s family archive to create a new work used we believe as a floor stack in the way that Felix Gonzalez-Torres would do. Limitation unknown. VG+.
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Glasgow: Tramway, 2009
30 x 21cm, unpaginated. Pictorial hard boards. Artist's book where Monk has appropriated a Blue Peter (a UK famous and very popular long running children's programme from the BBC) annual (a staple of Xmas stockings remembered fondly by middle class adults of a certain age) and added items from his collection of announcement cards by conceptual artists. Limitation unknown. Fine.
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Malmo:Malmo Kunsthall, 2009
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Tokyo post box where the card was posted. One of a long series of similar cards sent from all over the world. This example unsigned and unposted. VG+.
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Paris, Dilecta/Musée du Louvre, 2009
23 x 17.5cm, 120pp pluw printed boards including 40 illustrations b/w. This first edition of the artist's book lists all of the artists found in the museum alphabetically within various rather contrived groupings. Boltanski has added 40 constructions where b/w reproductions of portraits of artists and employees of the museum have been cut up and recombined with half of the upper faces being attached to a different artist/employee's lower face - much like a children's card game. One of 2,000 copies. VG++.
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N.p.: n.p., n.d. (c 2009)
38 x 34cm, green silkscreen on cream cotton plus red handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his shopping interests but here no specific seller is being specified - instead the lack of a seller is designated as "Untitled" a title that is more associated with individual artworks rather than a shop. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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Berlin: Eroticxa, n.d. (c 2009)
38 x 34cm, black silkscreen on cream cotton pus handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his interest in their products by his simple endorsement. On the back of the bag, the design is repeated but in a mirror image. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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Paris, Editions 591, 2009. 28.5 x 20.7cm, two part metal box content of the catalogue raisonne by Bob Calle along with an original appropriated photograph of three young women from the 1940s. This is one of only 22 examples each signed and numbered by Boltanski (as is the photograph in passpartou). VG+. ...
Zurich: ProLitteris, 2009
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the title installation in colour from 1985.
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