The museum bookshop is integrated into the museum visit and is run by museum staff. Devised by Andrée Putman as a curiosity cabinet, the bookshop has imposed itself in the entire PACA region as the only place proposing a very specific selection of publications on national and international contemporary arts, whilst all other contemporary art museums have preferred to diversify, offering a more generalised choice. Three sections are displayed: catalogues of biennials or large scale monographic exhibitions, a specialised selection of contemporary art with a large choice of publications on individual artists and finally the Collection Lambert publications on the collection (Rendez-vous), or the large-scale exhibitions of the past few years (Artists' Collections, Theorema, Figures de l'acteur, on Cy Twombly or Andres Serrano and the Comédie-Française...).

More than 25 artists' editions have been produced in the course of these first seven years - certain at very affordable prices (
David Shrigley, Jonathan Monk...) or others more costly due to their exceptional rarity (Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner...)This activity has expanded so rapidly that it has become an entirely separate department. In accordance with our wishes as well as the artists', all the revenue from these sales is exclusively devoted to the creation of exhibitions at the museum.

PUBLICATIONS

ARTISTS' EDITIONS