Nov 16, 2021 - Sale 2588

Sale 2588 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CHRISTO
Closed Highway, Project for 5000 Miles, 6 Lanes East-West Highway.

Offset lithograph on wove paper, 1972. 876x615 mm; 34 3/4x24 inches. Signed in felt-tip pen and ink and numbered 130/150 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Amalgamated Lithographers of American, New York. Published by Local One, New York.

Experiments in Technology commissioned this print--together with prints by other American artists--as part of a campaign to promote mass transportation.

The project was for a 5000-miles, 6 lane, east-west highway across the United States, all entrances were to be closed with a 36-to-48-foot-high glass wall, 36 inches thick. Schellmann 51.