Mito-Shi: ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, 1990BR>
29.5 x 21.5cm, 32pp plus printed French fold wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a Japanese show - text by Yugo Hasegawa in both English and Japanese. Twenty-one pages of colour and b/w plates including images of the artist installing the show. All in original printed slipcase. Scarce.
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Bruxelles: Palais des Beaux-Arts, n.d. (1990) 21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a joint show based on works in ante-chambers. One image of the museum on the front in b/w. museum text on reverse. VG+>...
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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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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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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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...
Bordeaux: Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1990
28 x 22cm, 206pp plus boards and typographic dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for the seven artists (all of whom were very established practitioners by 1990).
Each artist has a section in the book dedicated to them and Boltanski has 10pp which has images of works not seen elsewhere before plus one fold out in full colour of an installation (here "Inventaire des objets appartenu a la jeune fille de Bordeaux").
VG but the dust jacket is slightly torn near the spine.
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Haute-Vienne: Musee Departmental, 1990
17 x 12.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a joint show between the partners. Inserted inside the card are two colour offset lithographic prints on thin paper. Boltanski's is a brightly coloured image of some purple flowers on a purple background. VG+.
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1990n.d. 21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show with works from Anselmo, Richard Artswager, John Baldessari, Baumgarten, Cragg, Deacon, Horn, Oldenberg, Munoz, Penone, Shutte, Struth, Toroni, Wall, Lawrence Weiner as well as Boltanski. The front is an uncredited drawing based on the gallery floor plan. A mailed example. VG+....