LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oxidized copper, wire, tin, candles and wax

Size Notes:

smallest figure; largest figure 14 x 6.9 cm; overall installation dimensions variable

Description:

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Exhibited:

Paris, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Festival d'automne, 1 October - 9 November 1986 (another variant exhibited) New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Christian Boltanski, December 1987 - January 1988 (another variant exhibited) Bern, Kunstmuseum, Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Anderen, 21 March - 14 June 1987, pp. 178-179 (another variant exhibited and illustrated) Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art; Vancouver Art Gallery; C.A., Berkeley, University Art Museum; Toronto, The Power Plant, Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness, 1987-1988, pl. 28-30, p. 77 (other variants exhibited and illustrated, pp. 78-80) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Inventar, 30 June - 25 August 1991 (another variant exhibited and illustrated, p. 102) Paris, Tornabuoni Art, Tout feu tout flamme, 5 October 2012 - 22 December 2012, pp. 72-73 (illustrated)

Literature:

El Caso, exh. cat., Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1988, p. 62 (another variant illustrated) Lynn Gumpert, Christian Boltanski, Paris, 1994, p. 94 (other variants illustrated, pp. 76, 82, 92-93) Didier Semin, Tamar Garb and Donald Kuspit, Christian Boltanski, London, 1997 (another variant illustrated, inside cover and pp. 24-25) Julie Rouart, ed., Christian Boltanski, Paris, 2011, pp. 54-55 (another variant illustrated)

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner