Lot 10
  • 10

Christo

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Christo
  • Lower Manhattan Wrapped Building, Project For 2 Broadway, New York
  • signed in pencil, dated 1984 and inscribed H. C. S. 2/2
  • lithograph printed in colors with collage of fabric, twine and thread on Rives BFK paper
  • sheet: 27 7/8 by 22 3/8 in.; 70.8 by 56.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1984, this work is one of two hors commerce impressions aside from the numbered edition of 110 plus 20 artist's proofs.
Lithograph printed in colors with collage, 1984, signed in pencil, dated and inscribed 'H. C. S. 2/2' (aside from the numbered edition of 110+), on Rives BFK paper mounted on museum board, framed  

Literature

Jörg Schellmann, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Prints and Objects, A Catalogue Raisonne, 1963-2013, Ostfildern, Germany, 2013, pp. 140-141, no. 118

Condition

The print is in good condition, with the full sheet. An inconspicuous crease in the lower right corner with associated unobtrusive ink loss.
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Catalogue Note

lithograph printed in colors with collage of fabric, twine and thread on Rives BFK paper
framed
printed by Landfall Press, Chicago, published by Torsten Lilja, Stockholm