Monument to the Lycée Chases is a 1989 installation piece by French artist Christian Boltanski.
[2] That sketch, created 1987–1989, is owned by the Museum of Modern Art.
[2] The piece consists of three large gelatin silver prints, which are portraits of adolescents.
[3] The piece was inspired by a found photo of the 1931 graduating class from a private Jewish school in Vienna, Austria.
[1] Kay Larson, writing for New York Magazine in 1989, said, "The knowledge that these children were real, that they may still be walking among us unrecognized and adult–unless they all died in the concentration camps–moves Boltanski out of solipsism.