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International Edition
May 16, 2012 Last Updated: 7:32:PM EDT

Artworks by Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski
(French, b. 1944)
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Contemporary
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Christian Boltanski was born in Paris in 1944. His artistic career began when he left formal education at the age of 12, at which point he started painting and drawing. Since the 1960s, he has worked with the ephemera of the human experience, from obituary photographs to rusted biscuit tins. Several of Boltanski's projects have used actual lost property from public spaces, such as railway stations, creating collections which memorialise the unknown owners in the cacophony of personal effects.

Boltanski has exhibited internationally at museums including: Musée d'art modern de la ville de Paris; Kunsthalle Wien; Stedelijk van Abbemuseum. Eindhoven; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angelis; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Malmö Konsthall; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Museum Ludwig Köln; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Regina Sofia, Madrid.

His work has been featured in Documenta (1972, 1986) at the Venice Biennale (1993, 1996), and at the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (1991). Boltanski lives in Malakoff, a suburb of Paris, with equally renowned artist Annette Messager.
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Artcurial - Briest, Poulain, F. Tajan, Paris  |  December 6, 2011$43,953Les bougiesinstallation of 5 oxidized copper figurines, candles, and metal supports
1986
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Sotheby's, New York  |  November 10, 2011$98,500Odessa Monumentgelatin silver prints, light bulbs and wires
1988
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Sotheby's, New York  |  November 10, 2011$104,500R?liquairegelatin silver prints, steel frames, steel boxes, steel mesh, fabric, electric lamps and electric cables
1990
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