Live Auction 7566Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale (Morning Session)
Christo (b. 1935)
Lot 182

Christo (b. 1935)

The Pont Neuf Wrapped (Project for Pont Neuf-Paris)

Closed7 February 2008

Price Realised

GBP 78,500

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Christo (b. 1935)
The Pont Neuf Wrapped (Project for Pont Neuf-Paris)
signed, titled and dated 'Christo 1976 The Pont Neuf Wrapped (Project for Pont Neuf-Paris, Quai des grandes Augustins, Quai de Louvre, Quai de la Megisserie, Quai de Conti' (center left)
pencil, fabric, twine, photograph by Wolfgang Volz, charcoal, map and ballpoint pen collage on board
28 x 22in. (71 x 56cm.)
Executed in 1976

Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 20 March 1997, lot 66.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

To be included in the forthcoming Christo Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Daniel Varenne, Geneva, under number 3057.

This work is a preparatory collage for a temporary artwork The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85 which was completed in September 1985 and remained for fourteen days.