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Christo

Gabrovo 1935 – 2020 New York

„WRAPPED REICHSTAG“. 1978

Collage (pencil, fabric, string, pastel, charcoal and coloured pencil) on cardboard, framed under plexiglas. 56 x 71 cm (22 x 28 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Christo. „WRAPPED REICHSTAG“. 1978.

Estimate:

EUR 60,000

 

- 80,000

USD 81,800

 

- 109,000

Sold for:

71,400 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 159-163

Selected Works, Friday, 28.11.2008

Information

Collage (pencil, fabric, string, pastel, charcoal and coloured pencil) on cardboard, framed under plexiglas. 56 x 71 cm (22 x 28 in.). In the upper margin inscribed, signed and dated: WRAPPED REICHSTAG (PROJECT FOR DER DEUTSCHE REICHSTAG – BERLIN), PLATZ DER REPUBLIK, SCHEIDEMANNSTRASSE, BRANDENBURGER TOR Christo 1978. Further technical informations inscribed on the upper left and lower right. Catalogue raisonné: The work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of works of Christo in preparation by Daniel Varenne, Geneva with the number 1099. Framed

Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at Art Basel 1978 from Galerie Art in Progress, Munich)

Correct title: „Wrapped Reichstag (Project for Der Deutsche Reichstag - Berlin)"

Jacob Baal-Teshuva: Christo. Der Reichstag and urbane Projekte. Munich, Prestel, 1993, full-page colour ill. 1 (incorrectly described as in the „collection Jeanne-Claude Christo, New York“)

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