Autel de Lycée Chases (Altar to Chases High School)

1986

Christian Boltanski

Artist, French, 1944 - 2021

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    10 gelatin silver prints, 17 tin biscuit boxes (each containing a photomechanical print on Xerox paper), and six clamp-on lamps

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Glenstone Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 179.71 × 200.03 cm (70 3/4 × 78 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.127.1.1-33

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris); Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto; Mitchell P. Rales, Potomac, MD; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • Christian Boltanski, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, August 29-October 11, 1987

1988

  • Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 23 - June 19, 1988; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, July 12 - October 2, 1988; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, December 19, 1988 - February 12, 1989; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, March 15 - May 15, 1989; University Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA, July 19 - September 17, 1989; The Power Plant, Toronto, November 24, 1989 - January 7, 1990

1991

  • The Anonymous Other, The Friends of Photography/ Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA, April 17 - June 30, 1991

Wikidata ID

Q63863825

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