LES HABITANTS DU LOUVRE. 2009.

Paris, Dilecta/Musée du Louvre, 2009
23 x 17.5cm, 120pp plus printed boards including 40 illustrations b/w. This first edition of the artist’s book lists all of the artists found in the museum alphabetically within various rather contrived groupings. Boltanski has added 40 constructions where b/w reproductions of portraits of artists and employees of the museum have been cut up and recombined with half of the upper faces being attached to a different artist/employee’s lower face – much like a children’s card game. One of 2,000 copies. VG++.