CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
LOT 7

Since the late 1960s Christian Boltanski has created a powerful body of work with materials as diverse as metal boxes and fading black and white portraits, clothes and candles, darkness and light. Boltanski’s work is an ongoing play with memory and loss, engaging the heaviest of historical experiences with formal ingenuity and a lightness of touch.
Born in Paris in 1944, Boltanski contributed to some of the ground-breaking exhibitions of the early 1970s including Prospect 71 and Documenta 5. In the mid-1980s Boltanski began to use metal cut-outs and candles to create flickering shadows on the wall. Several of these works were memorably installed in the Chapel of the Hôpital de la Salpetrière in Paris in 1986, and in exhibitions at the Museums of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and Chicago in 1988. Boltanski has recently made installations in the Papal Palace in Siena and the Museo de Santa Rosa in Puebla, Mexico in 2002.

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
BOUGIES OMBRES, 1986
(Candle Shadows)

3 metal sculptures
5 x 2.5 in. / 12.5 x 6 cm., 5.25 x 2.75 in. / 13 x 7 cm., 3 x 2 in. / 7.5 x 5 cm.; candles, metal attachments installed 40cm apart

£ 8,000 - 12,000
US$ 13,000 - 19,000
Euro 11,000 - 17,000