Contemporary Day Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Contemporary Day Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Christo

Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida)

Auction Closed

June 26, 03:48 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Christo

1935 - 2020


Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida)

i: signed, titled and dated 1983 (lower edge); variously inscribed (on the reverse)

ii: variously inscribed; variously inscribed (on the reverse)

pencil, fabric, pastel, charcoal, wax crayon, aerial photograph and fabric sample in artist's Plexiglas frame, in two parts

i: 28.7 by 71.7 cm. 11¼ by 28¼ in.

ii: 56.5 by 71.7 cm. 22¼ by 28¼ in.

Executed circa 1983.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)

Christie's, New York, 11 November 2004, lot 190 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner