Live auction - Lot 439
Wrapped museum of contemporary art - Chicago (project) [...].
[1969]
€ 1.200 / 1.500
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Lot description
Lithograph, vellum paper 105 x 81 cm; signed and numb. 37/60 in pencil.
Framed (not studied outside frame).
"If any building ever needed wrapping, it was Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, a banal, one-story edifice (with a below-ground gallery) having about as much architectural charm as an old shoe box. Built in the early 1900s, it had once been a bakery and, later, the headquarters of Playboy Enterprises [...] The wrapping commenced on January 15, 1969 [...] Excerpt from the book Christo by David Bourdon [...]".
Ref. https://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-museum-of-contemporary-art-and-wrapped-floor-and-stairway.