Amsterdam: Seriaal bv, 1977
14.8 x 11cm, 2pp announcement card for a joint show of the lovers with five b/w images of found drawings on the front. Verso gallery details. A mailed copy.
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Paris: Musee Nationaal d'Art Moderne, 1976
10.6 x 21cm, 2pp b/w offset leaflet for a solo show of colour images by Boltanski. On the reverse there is an extract in the artist's holograph from a letter to Guy Jungblut which says:
"I make photographs, I am perfecting my technique and try to conform to rules of art which is difficult. I am making colour photographs of things that I am fond of, to show the beauty of simple things and a "joie de vivre". "
Boltanski's images were of food and family life and are very bold in technique. VG+. Scarce.
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Paris: Galerie Sonnabend, 1976
11 x 17cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for Boltanski's sixth solo show at Sonnabend. A mailed copy to M. Berg with handwritten address by the artist. VG+.
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New York: Galerie Sonnabend, 1975
17 x 11.6cm, 2pp. Announcement card with an image of Boltanski pretending to be a drunken clown in b/w on the front. On the back are found gallery information. This is a mailed copy hand addressed to M. Berg by Boltanski which also signed by Boltanski in black ink. VG+.
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44.5 x 29cm, 2pp printed page from a tabloid art journal (printed on newsprint paper) displaying an image of Boltanski as a "joker" where he pretended to be hung but the "rope" was not actually round is neck. Publication unknown - neatly torn from the original else VG.
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Antibes: Arocaria Editions, 1975
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp b/w artist's postcard with an image of the artist with his ventriloquist's dummy - Boltanski is pretending to hammer a nail into the wall as if he is a father attempting DIY. Verso publisher's info and standard postcard design VG+.
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Antibes: Arocaria Editions, 1975
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp b/w artist's postcard with an image of the artist with his ventriloquist's dummy during a performance. The artist is trying to feed the dummy but it appears to be refusing to eat. Verso publisher's info and standard postcard design VG+.
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Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1975 21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a Boltanski photograph of the artist pretending to be an elderly female on the front, verso gallery details. VG+. ...
Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1975
21 x 15cm, 1pp announcement leaflet for a performance by Boltanski with "his talking doll" - one of the first of such performative works by the artist where a besuited and be-hatted artist discussed "childhood memories" in a faux ventriloquist act. Interestingly young people under 10 are specifically invited to attend. On the back Boltanski has signed the leaflet to Berg thanking him for is support. VG+. although formerly folded.
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Hand addressed envelope from Boltanski to M. Berg sent from Germany.
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Rome: Cannaviello Studio d'arte, 1974
29.2 x 10.2cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a group show in Italy with contributions by David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Cumming, Jochen Gerz, Peter Hutchison, Jean Le Gac, William Wegman and others to which Boltanski contributed. by 1974 Boltanski was regularly invited to major group shows and many of those being international events - this was only 9 years after his very first public outing.
There are some marks on the front of this card and it is a hand addressed mailed example with stamp and frank. Else VG.
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Munster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1974
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a major museum show of posters, photographs and other works. This was one of the artist's earliest museum shows (although compared with other artists Boltanki was pretty successful in this regard with an exhibition in the ARC in Paris in 1970 which was his 5th ever solo show!). The card mentions more recent work bhy the artist where he plays a "clown".
The card is signed by Boltanski (to M. Berg) in black ink.
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Hand addressed (by Boltanski) envelope to M. Berg with franked printed stamping.
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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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