REALITES. 1973. POSSIBLE MAQUETTE?

St Etienne: Musee d'art et d'industrie de St Etienne, 1973 32 x 24cm, outer manilla folder which appears to be hand made and with carefully written titles and lists of artists. Internally there are 26 different 30 x 21cm, 1pp sheets with biographies and texts on the participating artists and some images (poor quality reproductions) of some of the works with the look of the pages being like bad xerox copies but printed. The outside of the cover notes the exhibition as being of Minimal Art and Hyperrealism from the USA and Support-Surface art from France and the participants include Bertholin, Cane, Bechtle, Cottingham, Don Eddy, Salt, Staiger, Flavin, Judd, LeWitt, Stella, Le Gac, Messager, Meurice, and Viallatas well as Boltanski. Boltanski's contribution is a reproduced photograph of the artist pretending to be a young boy approaching swans on a pond from 1972. This publication is unknown in any literature and it is possible this is a maquette for a non-printed catalogue. The hand drawn cover (which the pencil and red felt tip pen ink is fading and where the guide lines for the text to be written can still be seen) and the poor quality interior pages suggests this is exactly that. Clearly a rarity and possibly unique, this would be one of Boltanski's earliest group shows.

FRENCH ART. AN ENGLISH SELECTION. 1979.

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1979 15 x 21cm, 32pp plus card covers. Group show in the UK with the participation of Annette Messager, Anne & Ptrick Poiret and others as well as Boltanski. The latter exhibited Japanese Gardens I - V (large colour images created using models and constructed backgrounds). Two images reproduced (one in colour, one in b/w) and a short text in English. Sadly this catalogue has some contemporary notes made by a critic on a number of the pages but the images of the works are not found elsewhere to our knowledge.

LES MODELES. CINQ RELATIONS ENTRE TEXTE & IMAGE. 1979. WITH VERY DETAILED CATALOGUE RAISONNE AS APPENDIX.

Paris: Cheval d'attaque, 1979 22 x 16cm, 108pp plus pictorial card covers. An artist's book of sorts (although published on the occasion of the exhibition in la Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saone so may also be seen as an exhibition catalogue) in that five previously published works are reprinted in chronological order after a short interview between Irmeline Lebeer and Boltanski. The reproduced works are Recherche et presentation de tout ce qui reste de mon enfance, Tout ce que je sais d'une femme...., L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard, Les portraits photographiques de C.B., and Les Histoires. What commonality these works have is that each image has an associated text beneath it - sometimes accurate, other times fictional. At the back of the book there is a 44pp bibliography creates by Silke Paull and Herve Wurz which is more detailed than any other up to that point listing many early works missed out in Flay's Catalogue of 1991 including early sculptures. VG+.

POINT DE VUE IMAGES. FACONS DE PEINDRE. 1981.

Chalon-sur-Saone, Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saone, 1981 30 x 21cm, 56pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a photographic exhibition which alongside Boltanski included Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jamesd Collins, Jan DIbbets, Ger van Elk, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, John Hilliard, Urs Luthi, Annette Messager, Peter Roehr and Ed Ruscha. Unusually each artist's work is displayed in colour but shot from a distance which shows how it is exhibited on a wall, Boltanski's work are two photographs from the Composition Grotesques series. An extract from an artist's interview is reprinted at the back of the catalogue (from 1977). VG+.

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1984. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

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.

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1987.

Amsterdam: Stedelik Museum, 1987 23 x 21.8cm, 12pp (self cover) exhibition catalogue for a solo show. Text in English and Dutch - being an interview with Demosthene Davvetas. Two works - one in b/w, the other in colour - are reproduced. Wrappers are a bit scuffed and the cheap staples are slightly rusted else VG.

THEATRES. 1988.

La Rochelle: Maison de la culture La Rochelle., 1978 15 x 10.5cm, 40pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue consisting only of reproductions (four in colour) of mostly performance related works by the artist including his dalliance with dance as a set designer - Le Saut de l'ange from 1987 (with two images in b/w from the work and one painting/sketch), other works include his performance of the 70s and shadow plays. The sections are: Saynete Comiques, La Punition Injuste, La Baiser Cache, L'Anniversaire, Les Compositions, Les Ombres and the dance work. The dance work can be seen here: https://www.numeridanse.tv/en/dance-videotheque/le-saut-de-lange-0Rusted stitches else VG+. Very scarce.

RESERVE. 1989.

Warszawa: Galeria Foksal, 1989 21 x 15cm, 4pp. Exhibition catalogue with two colour images of the installation - second hand clothes left on the floor in the gallery spaces - a format used by the artist in a number of different venues. VG+.

LA GALERIE DES LOCATAIRES. 1989.

Paris: Carte Segrete Editeur, 1989 27 x 21cm, 134pp plus printed blue card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a conceptual group show (which doesn't have a physical gallery to exhibit in) which includes documenation of early work from 1972 onwards from Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Andres Cadere, Annette Messager, Sarkis and others. Boltanski's section includes images of work not shown elsewhere including Ombres - an installation in windows where shadows of interesting events could be seen from outside and French WIndow - a similar work elsewhere. VG+ - very scarce.

BEUYS BOLTANSKI BROODTHAERS BYARS. 1989.

Berlin: Galerie Jule Kewenig, 1989. 49 x 34.5cm, 8pp. Exhibition catalogue in the form of a large broadside with a text in German and English. by Remo Guidieri. Five large b/w images of works - Boltanski has an image from his comic performances on the back. VG+ although folded as issued by the gallery.

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI DANIEL BUREN GILBERT & GEORGE JANNIS KOUNELLIS SOL LEWITT RICHARD LONG MARIO MERZ. 1990.

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.

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1990.

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.

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. INVENTAR. 1991. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Hamberg: Hamburger Kunstehall, 1991 24.5 x 19cm, 136pp. Original boards. Exhibition catalogue which is really a monograph on the artist's work with colour and b/w images throughout. Essays by Uwe M. Schneede, Von Gunter Metken and Serge Lemoine and an interview with the artist. This copy is signed in green in by Boltanski on the half-title. VG+.

DER GEFRORENE LEOPARD/THE FROZEN LEOPARD. 1992.

Munich: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1992 22 x 15.5 x 3cm printed slipcase content of two volumes. Uniformly 22 x 15cm, 92pp and 132pp respectively plus boards and printed dustjacket. The exhibition catalogue of a group show based on the artists' reaction to the 1926 discovery of the frozen corpse of a leopard at 19,000 feet on Kilimanjaro - a height above where one might not expect such an animal to be found. Hemingway mentions this find in his book "The snows of Kilimanjaro" it being so unusual. The exhibition was based on a number of prints commissioned from each artist by the gallery and issued in two portfolios an edition of 60 copies. Boltanski's print in portfolio II is a collaged image of a Jewish school from Berlin 1939 - the original photograph overlaid with crumpled transparent paper to slightly mask the image and with packing tape at the corners before being rephotographed. The final print is printed on transparent paper which adds to the feeling of heritage or of coming from a past time - something that mimics some perceptions of the found body of the dead cat. Other artists found in the two portfolios (volume I and volume II) were Georg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Enzo Cucchi, Juliao Sarmento, Mimmo Paladino, Axel Katz, James Brown, Nicholas Africano, A.R. Penck and Donald Baechler; Volume Two features Jannis Kounellis, Maichael Byron, Rebecca Horn, Martin Disler, A.&P. Poirier, Stephan Blankenhol, Jan Fabre, and Tony Cragg as well as Boltanski. All of the prints are reproduced in colour in the first of the two volumes in this catalogue. The second volume here displays the various works shown in the group exhibition - Boltanski's was "Les Images Honteuses 'El Caso'" displayed in 3 vitrines and on the wall in a be-curtained image. El Caso includes images of murders and other similar tragedies - the curtain being a sort of removable censorship forcing the viewer to decide whether to look or not. Short essay text in Enlgish and German by Bernd Kulser. VG+ although a few marks on the slipcase.

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI: BOOKS, PRINTS, PRINTED MATTER, EPHERMERA. 1993.

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+.

CLOACA MAXIMA. 1994.

Zurich: Museum der Stadentwasserung Zurich, 1994 24 x 17cm, outer printed folder content of 282pp (all unbound sheets - most 2pp but plates are 1pp). A group exhibition which was themed around the fact that the Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Each artist contributed a work to the exhibition and Boltanski displayed the Objets Trouves dans Les Egouts de Zurich (Objects Found in The Sewers of Zurich) and 31 objects are reproduced in b/w on the sheets here.Other artists included in the show were Fischli/Weiss, Paul-Armand Gette, Gilbert & George. Hans Haacke, Carsten Holler, Ilya Kabakov, Allan Kaprow, Otto Muhl, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Slominiski, Nancy Spero amongst others. Texts in German, French and English. VG+ sheets in slightly worn folder.

RESERVE DES ENFANTS DE DUISBURG. INVENTAR DER DUISBURGER KINDER. 1994.

Duisberg: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, 1994 21 x 14.8cm, 48pp plus typographic card covers. Exhibition catalogue prefaced by an essay by Bettina Ruhrberg - "Auf der suche nach der verlorenen kindheit" followed by a second by Cornelia Bruninghaus-Knubel "kunst als Interaktion". What follows are several pages showing 60 small b/w photographs of objects donated to the exhibition by the children of Duisberg and Moers and followed by a long list (with birth dates) of 506 children who donated objects to the archive. The final image is of the items on racks in the museum as they were displayed. VG+.

MENSCHLICH. 1994. REPRINT IN GERMAN OF LESSONS OF DARKNESS. 1987.

Aachen: Ludwig Forum fur International Kunst, 1994 29.5 x 21cm, 20pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue which is heavily based on the catalogue from Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Lessons of Darkness 1988. The text is an extended biography illustrated chronologically by works in b/w but updated to 1994. VG+.

LOST: NEW YORK PROJECTS. 1995.

NYC: Public Art Fund, 1995 29.5 x 19cm, opens to 38 x 59cm. Single sheet printed black on light brown. The programme for Boltanski's huge intervention into New York City.- there were 6 different exhibition or installations including Lost Property in Grand Central Station, What They Remember in Eldridge Street Synagogue where children of Jewish immigrants were asked for memories of their childhood and their taped voices played at low volume in the building, Dispersion in the Church of the Intercession and Inventory in the New York Historical Society and others. The programme describes them all with black on brown images. Folded twice as issued. VG+. Not found in any catalogue raisonne.BR>

DERNIERES ANNEES. 1998.

Paris: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de paris, 1998 26.5 x 21cm, 28pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue that has an important text "Le Voyage au Perou/The Journey to Peru" which is in French and English. The text gives insights into the artist's practice - how he likes to reinstall works which change depending on the situation, the role of objects as a means of referencing "humanity" in his installations, the role of memory and archiving in his work and the importance of religion in art, the issue of death and its denial by society, and the artist's "journey to Peru' which relatees to the chronological experiences and knowledge. Black and white images of installations and works throughout. A wonderful catalogue. VG+.

COMPRA VENTA. 1998. TWO VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE.

Valencia: La Imprenta Comunicación Gráfica, 1998 25.4 x 18cm, slipcase content of two volumes - both 25 x 17.6cm, 86pp and 212pp respectively plus blue boards. The ornate exhibition catalogue(s) for a major site-specific installation where Boltanski placed many objects and pieces of furniture in a former silo and offered them for sale. When any item was sold, a white sheet was placed over the object to create an ever increasing sense of being a mortuary. Additionally hidden audio speakers were placed among the objects, recounting personal stories and memories attached to each item. Some of the stories are recounted in this book. Essay by Jose Miguel G. Cortes. Texts are in Spanish and Catalan, with an English summary in the first volume. Illustrated throughout in b/w. VG+.

NIGHT IN AUGUST. 1988.

Helsinki: Helsinki Festival / Kunsthalle Helsinki, 1998 33 x 25cm, 86pp including 40pp of b/w images of the installation. Gray cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gray and red on cover. Exhibition catalogue for "Christian Boltanski: Night in August," which was part of the Helsinki Festival. Boltanski's installation was "Dernières Années" which consisted of several sections - a clothing collection (folded and placed on shelves), objects and images covered in black cloth (as if shrouded) to hide their content and a major archive of tin boxes with faces of unidentified people. There is an essay (in Finnish, Swedish and English) by Michael Glasmeier and an interview with Boltanski (in Finnish, Swedish and English) by Jan Kaila. VG+.

FAIR PART. 2002.

Pistoia:Gli Ori, 2002 22.5 x 17cm, 120pp plus boards. Publisher's bandeau with title. Monograph and exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena with txts by Maurizio Marrone and Marc Scheps in Italian and English. Biography and bibliography. B/w and colout reproductions of works in the text and in plates outside the text. VG+.

LES ARCHIVES DU COEUR. 2008.

Berlin: Zeitung fur Kunst und Asthetik/Kewenig, 2008 46 x 30.5cm, 8pp. Exhibition catalogue in the form of supplement to Zeitung fur Kunst und Asthetik. Essay in English by Tessa Praun. Two full page images of works and a double centre page b/w photograph of the Japanese Island where the "archive of the heart" (recordings of many people's hearts volunteered from visitors to the museum exhibitions will be stored. VG+.

PARCOURS D'OMBRES. 2010.

VItteaux: Les Presses du réel, 2010 21.2 x 12.4cm, 44pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue with 4 colour images and 4 b/w images of shadow projections onto the outside of buildings from silhouettes cut out by the artist. Eight b/w lithographs reproduce the cut outs. Essay in French by Estelle Beauseigneur and an interview with Boltanski with Xavier Douroux. VG+.

DARNACH. 2919, GALLERY ISSUED PRESS RELEASE.

Berlin: Kewenig Galerie, 2010 30 x 21cm, 18 unbound sheets of which 15 are full colour images of works in the exhibition. There is a short essay in German and a cover sheet. All in original plastic transparent folder. A press pack for journalists that was not available to the general public. VG+.

LES REGISTRES DU GRAND-HORNU/APRES. 2015.

Grand-Hornu: Musee des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu,2015 15.5 x 11.5cm, outer card folder which opens to 6pp (unprinted). Tipped in such that they open up to 42 x 30cm, 1pp are posters on the left and right sides of the open sheets for the two works (Les Registres du Grand-Hornu and Apres), in the middle is a 15 x 10cm, 8pp with texts by Laurent Busine and Boltanski in French. An unusually designed exhibition catalogue for the artist's Belgium show. VG+. Scarce.

ANIMITAS. LES AMES QUI MURMURENT. 2016. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Tokyo: Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2016 30 x 19cm, 124pp plus card covers and printed pictorial dust-jacket. Exhibition catalogue for a major Japanese show with many colour images of the exhibition and in particular a major shadow play work and several videos of public installations. Printed on various paper stocks (some transparent) there are also interviews in Japanese and English. VG+. This copy is signed in black ink on the inner dust-jacket by Boltanski.

EPHEMERES. 2018. GALLERY HANDOUT AND LIST OF WORKS.

London: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018 30 x 21cm, 2pp. Gallery handout for the show of video works and installations. Short text on the work and one installation view of Animitas - a film of a field of bells on metal stalks being sounded by the wind. VG+. JOINT: London: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2018 30 x 21cm, 1pp. Injet printout as issued - a list with small images of the seven works exhibited with descriptions. VG+.