Lot Essay
To be included in the forthcoming Christo Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by Daniel Varenne, Geneva, under number 7776.
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Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California)
Details
Christo (b. 1935)
Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California)
signed, titled and dated 'Christo 1976 Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California' (along the lower edge)
pencil, charcoal and collaged printed documents on card
28 x 22in. (71 x 56cm.)
Executed in 1976, this work is a preparatory drawing for the temporary artwork Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76.
Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California)
signed, titled and dated 'Christo 1976 Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California' (along the lower edge)
pencil, charcoal and collaged printed documents on card
28 x 22in. (71 x 56cm.)
Executed in 1976, this work is a preparatory drawing for the temporary artwork Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist in 1978.
Exhibited
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Christo, The Running Fence, 1977. This exhibition later travelled to Santa Clara, California, 1977.
Karuizawa, Museum of Modern Art Seibu Takanawa, Christo from the Rothschild Bank AG Zürich Collection, 1987-1988. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, the Seibu Musuem of Art, and Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art.
London, Annely Juda, Christo: Projects not realised and Works in Progress, 1991.
Vienna, Kunsthaus Wien, Christo, der Reichstag und andere urbane Projekte, 1993.
Karuizawa, Museum of Modern Art Seibu Takanawa, Christo from the Rothschild Bank AG Zürich Collection, 1987-1988. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, the Seibu Musuem of Art, and Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art.
London, Annely Juda, Christo: Projects not realised and Works in Progress, 1991.
Vienna, Kunsthaus Wien, Christo, der Reichstag und andere urbane Projekte, 1993.
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