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19 May QUELQUES SOUVENIRS DE LA PREMIERE COMMUNION D’UNE FILLETTE RECUEILLIS ET DECRITS PAR CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1974. ONE OF 25 COPIES SIGNED & MARKED H.C.

Posted at 20:02h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Editions Georges Fall, 1974
22 x 16cm, 16pp (self cover). Artist's book which show objects from Annette Messager's first communion along with three photographs of a young girl (not Messager) preparing for the ceremony. The images are "representational" of the various objects and not the actual items used in Boltanski's partner's life. Each has an objective description below as if in a historical journal. Staples are a bit rusty else VG+. Scarce.

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19 May JOSEPH BEUYS ZEICHNUNGEN 1946 – 1971. 1974.

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Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange, 1974
12 x 22.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a show of drawings from Beuys' earliest period. One drawing - "Tierfrau un Tier" from 1956 - is reproduced in b/w on the back of the card. VG+ although two punched holes for storage.

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16 May MOWER IS LESS. 1973.

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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973.
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. A card which has the title text in green on white in a cursive font. A simple pun about cutting grass is also a comment on minimalism - of which this card is an example. VG+.

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09 May LES MORTS POUR RIRE DE CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1974.

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Dudweiler: Edition A.Q., 1974.
20.9 x 14.8cm, 32pp plus card covers with printed tipped on title label. First edition of this artist's book which again has photographic images of Boltanski dressed in suit and hat miming various methods of suicide - hanging, cutting one's throat or arms, drownings which all are shown in a second photograph to be fake - the knife is plastic, the drowning with a brick around the neck is only in a bowl of water, the hanging is from a rope that is not attached at either end.
However the last image of suicide is of the artist shooting himself in the head with a gun. That photograph has no associated proof of "fake" image so one may well assume the joke is on Boltanski himself as it was not fake, and he has in fact died.
This edition was printed in only 150 copies with 20 "du tete" copies and is very hard to find indeed. This copy is in VG+ condition although the label is slightly marked by the glue coming though the cheap paper. Reference: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 112.

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08 May AFFICHE. 1974.

Posted at 22:05h in EPHEMERA

London/Eindhoven/Grenoble: Whitechapel Art Gallery/Van Abbemuseum/Musee de Grenoble, 1974
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard with a reproduction of a poster "Les Malheurs de Bebe" verso usual postcard design. VG+.

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07 May SILHOUETTES. 1974.

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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1974
29.6 x 12.8cm, 8pp plus card covers and dustjacket. Artist's book which has 8 silhouettes of boats or landscapes drawn by Laurie Clark. Each image has a two-part description underneath - such as HUSH-HUSH CRAFT - Vosper. Vosper according to Finlay was a service launch ie an open boat. The dj here has some spotting but else this is VG+.

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18 Apr DESCRIPTION DES 34 REGLES ET TECHNIQUES UTILISEES EN JUIN 1972 PAR UN ENFANT DE 9 ANS. 1974.

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Paris: Galerie Sonnabend, 1974
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for Boltanski's twenty-first first solo show and the third at Sonnabend. The work displayed were photographs of the artist pretending to be a nine year old boy and reliving (supposed) memories from his past. This is a mailed copy to M. Berg sent to the latter from Boltanski with handwritten address.
The artist's book of the same title had recently been published by Berg Verlag in Copenhagen - which was M. Berg's own imprint and a book he had commissioned from Boltanski. VG+.

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07 Apr RICHTKRAFTE ’74. 1974.

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NYC: Rene Block Gallery, 1974 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for the installation Richtkrafte in New York (it had been show in Germany beforehand and later was sold in 1977 to a German museum. One b/w image of the work on the front, verso gallery details. A mailed example with stamp and typed address. VG+....

20 Mar THE GOLDEN TOWER. 1974.

Posted at 21:48h in James Lee Byars

Byars, James Lee Berlin: Galerie R. Springel, 1974 180 x 48cm. Two conjoined sheets of black paper printed in gold. The length of both sheets together is equivalent of Byars height (5’11”). Texts in the top half consist of 100 sentences selected from Shakespeare edited by Byars, containing the word ‘Gold’, the texts in the bottom half consist of texts by H. Szeemann, K. Ruhrberg, T. Deecke, H. Retzner, L. Burkhardt, W. Schmied, M. Haerdter, prof. Eliot. Issued as the “catalogue” for the exhibition “The Golden Tower”, under the artist program, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, 1974. Framed in wood and glass - fine....

16 Mar HOMAGE TO VICTOR SILVESTER. 1973.

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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973.
11.4 x 13.8cm, 2pp. Blue and black on silver - a plan of barrage balloons and torpedo nets in a harbour from the last world war is titled as an homage to Silvester - a famous 1930s dance band leader. Visually the barrage balloons and ships look like some of the dance charts with footsteps that taught amateurs how to do popular moves. VG+.

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13 Mar JOSEPH BEUYS COLLECTION SPECK 1948 – 1972. 1974.

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Paris:Galerie Bama, 1974
18 x 13.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a French exhibition of multiples, books and exhibition catalogues from the period 1948 to 1972. Reproduction of a Beuys text on the front. A mailed copy with stamp and typed address. VG+.

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10 Mar EDITION STAECK DELIVERS…. 1974. WITH SIGNED HANDWRITTEN DEDICATION FROM BEUYS.

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Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1974
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with the title text "Edition Staeck liefert sofort alle gebohnerte un gewichste Ware von Beuys." which roughly translates as "Staeck immediately delivers all polished and unweighted goods from Beuys." This example of this card has been overwritten in red ink by Beuys with a signed dedication. VG+. Schellman: P19.

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