Berlin: Rene Block, 1985 21 x 20cm, original /w silver gelatine print issued to the press with an image of the artist installing the work "Junge Madchen aus Berlin" in the gallery in 1985. On the reverse is a typed label with details of the image and noting the photograph is from R. Block and a newspaper catalogue number. VG+. ...
Paris: Association Francaise d'Action Artistique, 1985
26.5 x 16.5cm, 12 inch LP (33rpm) in gatefold sleeve. The auditory documentation of an exhibition curated by Michel Nuridsany which included work by Bertrand, Buren, Lavier and Sarkis as well as Boltanski. The record has "Reconstitution De Chansons Qui Ont Été Chantées A Christian Boltanski Entre 1944 Et 1946" (3 minutes 48 seconds). There is a b/w image of the artist from one of his performances.
There is also a 26 x 26cm, 12pp insert with two pages given over to each artist (the text on Boltanski is accompanied by a colour image from the Les Ombres. Both VG+. Very scarce.
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Paris: Maeght, 1985
37 x 27cm, 44 loose signatures in silkscreen outer folder on card. A single number of this artist's journal with original contributions by Kaminski, Mirsky, Réda, Barthelemy, Alberti, Holder, Léger, Gilbert and George, Macé, Mariscal and Cueff.
Boltanski also contributes a 4pp page work - a last day of school photograph of young children of which three faces are enlarged and placed within a drawn structure somewhat like a frame which infers each as a monument.
This is one of only 120 examples printed on velin which is signed and numbed by all of the artists (including Boltanski) on a colophon sheet. VG+. Scarce.
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NYC: n.p., 1985
5 x 5cm, colour transparency with an image of the Boltanski installation "Monument" from 1985. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.
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Rotterdam: Galerie 't Venster, 1984
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card printed yellow and black with a shadow play image on the front and verso gallery details. VG+.
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Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein, 1984
21 x 10.5cm, 2pp B/W announcement card with one of Boltanski's roughly made small dolls on the front and verso museum details for an exhibition of such works and colour photographs. The "doll" can be seen to be made somewhat cheaply out of corrugated cardboard and metal rivets. VG+.
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Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1984
59 x 84cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Boltanski photographs of one his roughly made models - here a sort of monster made out of a wooden clothes peg and cork. This poster is signed in black ink by the artist.VG+.
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Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1984
27 x 22.5cm, 92pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a large scale exhibition of Boltanski's photographic Compositions - starkly lit scenes where found models or brightly coloured hand-made puppets are displayed like dioramas. Additionally the artist creates roughly made puppets out of card board or household waste which are painted and the somewhat grotesque figurative works placed in darkness and highlighted by carefully placed lights.
Coloured images throughout and essays in German as well as an illustrated biography (which is similar to that found in other exhibition catalogues). Slight creases on the corner of the front cover but else VG+. This copy is signed in black felt tipped pen on the first half title page by Boltanski.
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Paris: Centre Georges Pomidou, 1984
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard with one of Boltanski's comic self portraits that he began to create in the 70s (this one from 1974), The original is a photograph that Boltanski would colour with paint/oil stick. Fine.
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Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 1984
15 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card with a shadow sculpture in full colour on the front and verso museum details in German - the same design as the announcement card for the Paris show in the same year. VG+....
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984
27 x 23.5cm, 124pp. Original pictorial card covers. Monograph and exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective of Boltanski's work in the Centre Georges Pompidou. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with various essays by Bernard Blistene, Serge Lemoine and others and an interview with the artist. VG+.
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Paris: Georges Pompidou Centre, 1984
15 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card with a shadow sculpture in full colour on the front and verso museum details. This is the same design as the card for the Zurich show which took place one month later. VG+.
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