CHRISTO | The Pont Neuf, Wrapped (Project for Paris)

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Sotheby's New York, May 10, 2012, lot 285

Drawings 1974-1984, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., March-May 1984, cat. no. 19A

Delphine and Reed Krakoff, Houses That We Dreamt Of: The Interiors of Delphine and Reed Krakoff, New York, 2017, p. 105 (for the present lot illustrated)

This work is in very good condition overall. The collage elements are stable. There is a soft undulation and pale time staining to the sheets as well as some minor surface soiling. There is some minor, scattered adhesive residue throughout the work, more noticeable to the perimeter of some of the collage elements. There is some scattered stray media and minor rubbing resulting from the graphite due to the artist's choice of medium and working method. Under close inspection, there is some scattered, non-obtrusive stray media and minor surface accretions. Framed in two Plexiglas boxes.
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