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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI: WHITE SHADOWS
(BOLTANSKI, CHRISTIAN). Boltanski, Christian. Houston, TX: Bayou Books & Contemporary Arts Museum, 1991. First Edition 1/500. Small 8vo. Leporello Wrappers in a Box. Artist's Book. Fine.. One continuous 6 ¾ x 76" sheet printed recto only, neatly folded in fourteenths as issued to make 28pp plus a single leaf with the title and colophon, 14 b&w illustrations. Limited to five hundred copies only, Christian Boltanski's "White Shadow" was the fifth contribution to the Bayou Books series of artist's books commissioned by Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum. It consists of an accordion-fold pictorial of a brightly illuminated cut-out paper figure photographed against a stark black background. A most handsome example of entry number seventy-nine in Jennifer Flay's "Christian Boltanski: Catalogue - Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991" in the publisher's printed paper-over-boards box, as issued. 0-936080-26-4 Inventory Number: 017918