Nov 16, 2021 - Sale 2588

Sale 2588 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CHRISTO
Wrapped Floors, Project for Haus Lange Museum, Krefeld.

Color lithograph with collage of brown wrapping paper, hand-painted cloth and staples on white Arches Cover paper mounted on cardboard, 1983. 565x720 mm; 22 3/8x28 3/8 inches (sheet), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 91/100 in crayon, upper right. Printed by Landfall Press, Chicago. Published by Edition Schellmann & Klüser, Munich and New York. A very good impression. Schellmann 110.

Provenance: Patricia Whitman, New York; thence to the Estate, 2017.

Patricia Dowd Whitman was an admired staff member at The MoMA from 1974 until she retired in 2007. She was responsible for building relationships with donors and artists such as Dorothea Rockburne, Tom Otterness, and Jeanne-Claude and Christo. From 1990 until her retirement, she was the Director of the Contemporary Arts Council at MoMA.