Explore our Collection Art Artists
Christian Boltanski. Les morts pour rire de Christian Boltanski (Christian Boltanski’s Amusing Ways to Die)

Christian Boltanski

Les morts pour rire de Christian Boltanski (Christian Boltanski’s Amusing Ways to Die)

Published 1974

Book with fourteen tipped-in gelatin silver prints and handwritten titles in white ink on black accordion-folded leaves; lithographed colophon; publisher’s original binding and slipcase. Binding: covers of black cloth over boards with title stamped in white on spine; black paper doublures

Not on view

Author Christian Boltanski
Publisher AQ-Verlag, Dudweiler
Medium Book with fourteen tipped-in gelatin silver prints and handwritten titles in white ink on black accordion-folded leaves; lithographed colophon; publisher’s original binding and slipcase. Binding: covers of black cloth over boards with title stamped in white on spine; black paper doublures
Dimensions pages, folded: 9 1/16 × 5 ½ in. (23 × 14 cm), unfolded: 9 1/16 × 11 in. (23 × 28 cm); book (closed): 9 3/4 × 5 13/16 × 11/16 in. (24.8 × 14.8 × 1.8 cm)
Edition 170. Twenty numbered 1–20, with gelatin silver prints, handwritten titles, and slipcase; 150 bound copies with offset-lithographed reproductions of the photographs and the text in three languages. This copy no. 9
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 446.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

Explore more

All works by Christian Boltanski →

From MoMA Design Store

Licensing

Artwork or archival images

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA's collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

Audio and film clips

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit Circulating Film and Video Library.

Text from a publication or the archives

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA's archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].

Feedback

This record is a work in progress. If you have additional information or spotted an error, please fill out this feedback form.