artnet Auctions Presents: CHRISTO
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Wrapped Vespa, 2009
Color pigment print with collage
12 x 12 in.
30.5 x 30.5 cm.
Est. US$5,000–7,000
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Wrapped Building, Project for 1 Times Square, New York, 1985
Color lithograph with collage
28.1 x 22.25 in.
71.5 x 56.5 cm.
Edition HC aside from edition of 100
Est. US$8,000–10,000
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Mein Kölner Dom, Wrapped, Project for Cologne, 1992
Color lithograph with collage
22 x 28 in.
56 x 71 cm.
Est. US$10,000–12,000
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Untitled (The Gates), 1998
Colored pencil, graphite, collage, acrylic, oil, and photograph on heavy cardboard
11.25 x 8.75 x 1.5 in.
28.6 x 22.2 x 3.8 cm.
Est. US$40,000–50,000
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Package on Radio Flyer Wagon, Project, 1993
Color lithograph and silkscreen with collage
19.25 x 22 in.
49 x 60 cm.
Est. US$4,000–5,000
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Over the River (Project for Arkansas River, Colorado), 2000
Mixed media and collage on paper laid on panel
8.4 x 10.9 in.
21.3 x 27.8 cm.
Est. US$20,000–30,000
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Mastaba, Project for Abu Dhabi, 2012–2013
Group of three color lithographs
33.5 x 25.2 in. each
85 x 64 cm. each
Est. US$2,000–3,000
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Wrapped Bottle, 2007
Color pigment print and collage
12.6 x 10.2 in.
32 x 26 cm.
US$2,500–3,500
artnet Auctions is pleased to announce Christo, a sale of over 40 prints, drawings, photos, and posters by the sculptor and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude (French,
1935–2009). The auction includes works that span the artists’ 50-year career, documenting their most spectacular environmental installations, funded completely through the sale of preparatory drawings and prints. His most recent project, The Gates, drew over 4 million people to Central Park in 2005. The works in the sale have estimates ranging from US$500 to 95,000, and will be live for bidding on artnet Auctions from January 28 until February 6.
Highlights from the sale include an exquisitely detailed collage, estimated at US$20,000 to 30,000, which was created by Christo for an upcoming project entitled Over The River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado. The installation will require the suspension of a 5.9-mile curtain of fabric over the Arkansas River in central Colorado for a two-week period in 2015. A set of three lithographs entitled The Mastaba, A Project for Abu Dhabi, estimated at US$2,000 to 3,000, document another upcoming project. Comprised of 410,000 barrels, and measuring 492 feet high—eclipsing the pyramids of Giza in terms of size—The Mastaba, Project for Abu Dhabi will be the largest sculpture in the world, and the artist’s only permanent installation. Over the years the artist has also created prints and drawings for projects that have never been realized. One of these is Wrapped Building, Project for 1 Times Square, Allied Chemical Tower, New York (1991), a project that proposed to drape the iconic building where the ball is dropped every New Year’s Eve completely in fabric. The project is brought to life in a collaged three-dimensional lithograph that incorporates fabric and thread, estimated at US$10,000 to 15,000. Another unrealized project is represented in a collaged lithograph Mein Kölner Dom, Wrapped, Project for Cologne (1992), estimated at US$10,000 to 12,000. For this project, the artists proposed shrouding the Roman Catholic 13th-century masterpiece completely in fabric.
Curated by Senior Specialist in Contemporary Art, Deb Ripley
Live for Bidding January 28–February 6
