About Christian Liberte Boltanski

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    "Christian Boltanski, Whose Art Installations Dazzled, Dies at 76," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, July 15, 2021

    In often sprawling works that used old photos, discarded clothes and other found objects, he pondered loss, chance and memory.

    Christian Boltanski, an internationally acclaimed artist whose striking installations dealt with themes of memory and forgotten lives, chance and fate, death and the passage of time, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Paris. He was 76 and lived just outside the city, in Malakoff.

    The Marian Goodman Gallery, which represented him, announced his death. No cause was given.

    Mr. Boltanski once filled the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue...

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