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10 Portraits Photographiques de Christian Boltanski 1946-1964.

Stock Code 111221

Paris, Multiplicata, 1972

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Signed. Signed copy of this artists' book, which contains a series of portraits purportedly showing Christian Boltanski aged 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 17, and 20. Annette Messager took these photographs one afternoon in the Parc Montsouris in Paris when Boltanski enlisted strangers and friend's children to pose; Boltanski himself only features in the final portrait, but aged 28, not 20.

First edition, one of 500 copies, signed on verso of the front wrapper; 8vo (210 x 134 mm, 8¼ x 5¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset; white printed wire-stitched wrappers, printed in black, minor toning, rubbing, and handling marks, near-fine; [24]pp (incl. covers).

Boltanski Artists' Books pp26-7.
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10 Portraits Photographiques de Christian Boltanski 1946-1964.

BOLTANSKI, Christian.

Stock code: 111221

$863.00

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