Glasgow: Tramway, 1993
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement and invitation card with the image of a lost glove on the front and on the back a blurred photographic portrait of a unknown man (presumably one of the workers made redundant from Boltanski's research for this exhibition and installation. VG+
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Koln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig, 1993
21 x 15cm,72pp plus wrappers. First edition of a catalogue raisonne of works including paintings, sculptures and documents. 119 items described and illustrated in b/w. Texts in German and French. VG+.
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39 x 59 cm unique collage/appropriation comprising a vintage magazine cover from Signal Magazine mounted on cardboard and placed in a glass and wooden frame - the work is signed 'C. Boltanski' on the label on the back of the 40.5 x 60.5 cm frame which is also the dated, numbered and inscribed '1993, 4/16 (Unikat) Collage Jahresausgabe des Museumvereins Mönchengladbach 1993' . Each of the 16 issued works was unique with a different cover from Signals Magazine - the war time magazine had interested Boltanski for a long period because in part of the day to day activities to be found in the illustrations - belying the conflict that was happening throughout Europe....
Glasgow: Tramway, 1993
60 x 42cm, green and black on white exhibition poster for a solo show where Boltanski found objects that had been left by error on the Glasgow underground railway. VG.
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Monchengladbach: Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, 1993
10.5 x 19cm, 2pp typographic announcement card. VG+
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Monchengladbach: Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, 1993
84 x 59.5cm, full colour lithographic exhibition poster with an image of a vintage German sitting room. The title of the show translates to "Behind closed doors". VG+. This poster is signed in ink by Boltanski over the colour image.
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Monchengladbach: Stadtischen Museum Abteiberg Monchengladbach, 1993
21 x 14cm, 96pp plus original typographic card covers. Artist's book listing the acquisitions by all of the art museums of the Rhineland during the years 1935 - 1945. The various museums included here have the artists and their works listed by alphabetic order. Some works are reproduced in b/w.
The decade chosen by Boltanski includes the pre-Nazi years until the end of the war and it is noticeable that there are few if any avant garde works purchased/acquired (the Nazis after all campaigned against "degenerate art" and this presumably was reflected in the acquisitions policy of the museums - most of the works are realistic landscapes and figurative portraits and statuary.
VG+. This example is signed by Boltanski on the first title page.
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NYC: Lawrence Miller, 1993
9.4 x 21.5cm, 1pp typographic announcement card. VG=.
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Paris, Yvon Lambert Editeur, 1993
Two part blue cardboard box with handwritten title label content of 19 sheets containing Lebensztejn's text "Une rêverie émanée de mes loisirs," each accompanied by an original line drawing by Boltanski on tracing paper.
Each text page is thus overlaid with a drawing; the lines, drawn in 5 color pencils, link letters in the text, with the combinations of letters forming quotations from 5 writers; a letterpress key to the drawings gives the quotations (from Tadeusz Kantor, Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy, the Talmud and Ingmar Bergman) in mirror writing. Each text sheet/drawing pair is enclosed in a green paper folder.
There is an introductory page and a colophon page as well as a sheet explaining the work with the key to the drawings.
Boltanski's intervention into the book finding hidden texts within the larger commentary.
Very good condition with some minor fading to the blue box but internally VG++. Scarce.
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Frankfurt am Main: Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, 1993 65 x 49.5cm, red and black on white offset lithographic exhibition poster with one b/w photographic image above museum text. Folded for storage else VG+....
NYC: New York Public Library, 1993
30 x 21cm, folded twice - single sheet of card which opens to a 60 x 42cm, full sheet poster displaying a page from the Inventory of Objects belonging to a Young Woman of Charleston. There is also an essay by Robert Rainwater. VG+.
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Lausanne: Musée Canonale des Beaux-Arts, 1993
21 x 14 m. 62pp plus original typographic wrappers. Artist's book listing all of the deaths for a year (organised by day) in the Swiss Canton. Boltanski always notes that he chose Swiss people (although this was released in Switzerland as part of the exhibition Les Suisse morts in 1993 in Lausanne) because of their association with peace and the fact that their deaths were usually not caused by trauma.
This copy is one of 50 signed and numbered copies - on the last page in blue ink by Boltanski. VG+.
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