Christian Boltanski art links 

Original works by Christian Boltanski available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!
Many works online

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain   NEW!

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Humans (Gizakiak), 1994

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Monuments (La Fête du Pourim), 1989

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Centre Pompidou, Paris
Information dossier on the artist

De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Netherlands
Click "works in collection"

Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Monument Odessa, 1991

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
20 Dead Swiss, 1990

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
To see the text in English, click on "English", then "Collection", then on the artist name

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
The inhabitants of the Hôtel Saint-Aignan in 1939

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Klub Myszki Miki, 1972

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Reliquaire: meurtres, 1989-90

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida

Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Click "B" for "Boltanski"

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Monument Odessa

The Jewish Museum, New York City
Monument (Odessa)

The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
La Danseuse (The Dancer), 1987

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
The Whispers

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Blind Spot Magazine

 

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 8): Christian Boltanski

Tate Magazine
Studio Visit: Christian Boltanski

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Christian Boltanski: It's a jumble out there", 2010 article by Adrian Searle

 

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Art podcast: Adrian Searle discusses Christian Boltanski's installation Personnes at Monumenta 2010

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   look inside Christian Boltanski (Contemporary Artists) look inside Christian Boltanski