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Christo

The Umbrellas (Joint Project for Japan and USA)

Auction Closed

October 13, 03:19 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Christo

1935 - 2020


The Umbrellas (Joint Project for Japan and USA)

each signed and dated 1988 (lower right), titled (lower left) and variously inscribed; signed (on the reverse)

pencil, charcoal, wax crayon, photograph by Wolfgang Volz, enamel paint and ballpoint pen, in artist's Plexiglas frames, in two parts 

each: 56.5 by 36.2 cm. 22¼ by 14¼ in.

Executed in 1988.

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in the 1990s) 

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Christo: The Umbrellas (Joint project for Japan and USA). Drawings and Collages, May - June 1988, n.p., illustrated