14 May LES HABITANTS DU LOUVRE. 2009. ONE OF 40 DELUXE EXAMPLES, SIGNED & NUMBERED WITH “CARD GAME”.

Two part black cardboard box with title label content of a 23 x 17cm, 160 piece card game where various photographs of the artist, author and portraits from the Louvre can be mixed up top and bottom to create new combinations of faces. The card game in this example is still in shrink wrap and unopened. JOINT WITH: LES HABITANTS DU LOUVRE 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. This is one of only 40 examples and X H.C. copies which are signed by both artist and Jacques Roubaud. VG++. ...