Sale: 534 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, Dec. 09. 2022 in Munich Lot 103

 

103
Christo
Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for J. L. Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri), 1978.
Black and white photograph, worked over with ac...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,500

(incl. surcharge)
Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for J. L. Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri). 1978.
Black and white photograph, worked over with acrylic, ballpoint pen and pencil on cardboard.
Lower left signed and dated, titled and inscribed in bottom center. Inscribed in sheet's upper margin. Inscribed with a personal dedication on the reverse. 38 x 24 cm (14.9 x 9.4 in), size of sheet. [EH].
In the original Plexiglas frame.
• Unique object.
• Project draft for "Wrapped Walk Ways" at Jacob Loose Memorial Park.
• Between October 4 and 16, 1978, a saffron-colored nylon fabric covered 4 kilometer of paths in the park.
• A remaining impression of a temporary project.
• The disguisd landscapes of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are one-of-a-kind.
• Next to documenta 4 in 1968, Christo participated another 5 times in the Kassel exhibition, the last time in 2017
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We are grateful to Mr Matthias Koddenberg, Estate of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, New York, for his kind support in cataloging this lot. The work is registered in the archive.

PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.




103
Christo
Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for J. L. Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri), 1978.
Black and white photograph, worked over with ac...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 37,500 / $ 40,500

(incl. surcharge)