Annette Messager Collectionneuse.

8vo. (210 x 150 mm). [12 unnumbered leaves]. Printed and facsimile text reproducing Messager's manuscript, reproduction drawings and photographs printed in offset throughout. Original publisher's white printed wrappers stapled as issued, reproduction manuscript title in black to front cover and publisher's imprint at foot, spurious advertisement ('La semaine prochaine . &c.') to rear. Annette Messager's artist book / catalogue for her first museum exhibition in Paris in 1974. Issued to accompany the eponymous exhibition 'Annette Messager Collectionneuse' held in the Musé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from April 25th - June 2nd 1974, this artist book / catalogue details Messager's collections. 'Le Repertoire des Collections en Mars 74' lists 56 such collections and details the contents of each - some such as 'Les Approches' were to become artist books in their own right - with the list including collections such as 'Album-Collection No. 1: Le mariage de Mlle Annette Messager', 'Album-Collection No. 10: Les hommes que je n'aime pas', 'Album-Collection No. 18: Les tortures volontaires', 'Album-Collection No. 20: Ma collection de châteaux', 'Album-Collection No. 23: Comme mes amis me dessineraient' &c. Several of these collections ('Les enfants aux yeux rayés - Album - collection no. III', 'Comment mes amis feraient mon portrait - Album - collection no. 23' and so on) are also illustrated in the catalogue. …