Christian BOLTANSKI Lot n° 32

[Christian BOLTANSKI] "Some memories of the First Communion of a little girl" collected and described by Christian Boltanski Edition Georges Fall, 1974 Signed and justified EA on the 2nd cover, edition at 150 copies 22 x 16 cm, 12 pages, paperback (+ cover) The images of the first communion show Annette Messager as a child. Objects of piety are described tautologically in the manner of scientific enumerations, without distinction between the essential and the accessory. ref. Jennifer Flay : C. Boltanski, Catalogue of the books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991 - König, Cologne, 1992, n° 35, pp. 98-99 reproduced. Anne Moeglin-Delcroix: Esthétique du livre d'artiste, Le mot et le reste / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, 1997, p.190 reproduced. Bob Calle: Christian Boltanski, Livres d'artiste 1969-2007, Paris, 2008, pp. 34-35.