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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sherman | 100
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 5pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  27
• Lot Description:
  Christian Boltanski
  (born 1944)
  L'Ecole de la Grosse Hamburger Strabe, en 1938, 1991
  metal tin, photograph, cloth, tape and litho pencil, edition of 40
  20.3 x 22.9cm (8 x 9in).
  signed and numbered to artists label on lid interior:'C.Boltanksi 34/40'
• Provenance:
  New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2010; The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  Artist Christian Boltanski has frequently relied on the photograph's deceptive capacity to function as an "authentic" trace—a convincing souvenir—of personal experience. The artificially aged tin biscuit box in L'Ecole de la Grosse Hamburger Strasse en 1938 also suggests—along with a pre-war snapshot of German schoolgirls—an authentic, archaeological find. A part of a group photograph has been hand-marked, enlarged and shrouded with an aureole of white cloth; each tin in the edition contains a different enlargement. Everything, the artist points out, has the power to connote; the more prosaic the object, the more profound the connotation can be.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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