Lot Essay
Daniel Varenne will include this work in his forthcoming Christo catalogue raisonn.
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Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties)
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Christo (b. 1935)
Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties)
signed, dated and titled 'Christo 1976 Running Fence/Project for Sonoma County and Marin County, State of California/Pacific Ocean to Freeway 100' (on the right panel)
four panels--technical diagram; printed map; black and white photograph; collage with pencil, fabric, colored wax crayons, tape and staples on paperboard
size overall: 22 x 64 in. (57.2 x 164 cm.)
Executed in 1976 (4)
Running Fence (Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties)
signed, dated and titled 'Christo 1976 Running Fence/Project for Sonoma County and Marin County, State of California/Pacific Ocean to Freeway 100' (on the right panel)
four panels--technical diagram; printed map; black and white photograph; collage with pencil, fabric, colored wax crayons, tape and staples on paperboard
size overall: 22 x 64 in. (57.2 x 164 cm.)
Executed in 1976 (4)
Provenance
Calvin Tompkins, New York
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 23 February 1985, lot 139
The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 23 February 1985, lot 139
The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Literature
ed., N. Halpern, Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, Los Angeles, 1985, vol. II, p. 272 (illustrated in color, p. 50).
Exhibited
Jerusalem, Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum; Paris, The American Center and Centre Nationale des Arts plastiques; Lisbon, Museo Calouste Gulbenkian; and Fribourg, Muse d'Art et d'Histoire, Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, September 1985-January 1987, n.n.
Las Cruces, New Mexico State University Art Gallery; Spokane, Washington, Cheyney Cowles Museum; The Boise [Idaho] Art Museum; Larame, The University of Wyoming Art Museum; The Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; Charleston, South Carolina, The Jibbes Art Museum; and Little Rock, The Arkansas Arts Center,An Eclectic Eye, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, November 1988-August 1990, n.n.
Las Cruces, New Mexico State University Art Gallery; Spokane, Washington, Cheyney Cowles Museum; The Boise [Idaho] Art Museum; Larame, The University of Wyoming Art Museum; The Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; Charleston, South Carolina, The Jibbes Art Museum; and Little Rock, The Arkansas Arts Center,An Eclectic Eye, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, November 1988-August 1990, n.n.