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Christian Boltanski
[French Installation Artist, born in 1944]
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Christian Boltanski Works Online
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Original works by Christian Boltanski available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public 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
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Blind Spot Magazine
Articles and Reference Sites:
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
Multimedia:
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. | |
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