Contemporary Discoveries
Contemporary Discoveries
Christo
Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida)
Lot Closed
July 19, 05:25 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Christo
1935 – 2020
Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida)
signed and dated 1981 (lower right); titled (lower left)
charcoal, graphite, pastel, wax crayon, tape and paper collage on paper
11¼ by 14¼ in.
28.6 by 36.2 cm.
Executed in 1981.
Private Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts (acquired as a gift directly from the artist)
Sotheby's New York, 30 September 2021, lot 54 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Christo proclaimed his Surrounded Islands project, which used over 6.5 million square feet of fabric and cost over $3.5 million to create and maintain to be an homage to Monet, stating “This is my Water Lillies.”
Lisbet Nilson, “‘This is my Water Lillies’: Christo’s Blossoms in the Bay.” ARTnews, January 1984, p. 54