Christo
Harry Shunk & János Kender - Edifice public empaqueté - image-1

Lot 192 D

Christo Harry Shunk & János Kender - Edifice public empaqueté

Auction 1109 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.500 €
Result: 3.224 € (incl. premium)

Christo
Harry Shunk & János Kender

Edifice public empaqueté
1963

Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 8.4 x 23.2 cm (9 x 23.9 cm). Signed and dated by Christo in ballpoint pen and photographer's stamp on the verso.

The motif served as a model for the edition, which was published by Schellmann under the title 'Packed Building. Project for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris' in 1970.

Provenance

Galleria Apollinaire, Milan; private property, Germany

Literature

Lawrence Alloway, Christo, Stuttgart 1969, plate 48; David Bourdon, Christo, New York 1971, plate 24; Christo und Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958 - 64, exhib.cat. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2001, plate 245; Paul Goldberger, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: 75, Cologne 2010, pp. 156 with ill.; Jörg Schellmann (ed.), Christo and Jeanne-Cleaude. Prints and Objects. Catalogue Raisonné 1963 - 2013, Stuttgart 2013, ill. p. 57 (the litograph)