Empaquetage d'un arbre

Details

Christo (b. 1935)
Empaquetage d'un arbre
signed, titled, dated and further annotated 'EMPAQUETAGE D'UN ARBRE PROJET... CHRISTO 64-65' (along the upper edge)
pencil, fabric, polyethylene, rope, twin, wax crayon, paint and cut-out cardboard on wood
24 x 29in. (61 x 73.5cm.)
Executed in 1964-65

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 4 November 1987, lot 84A.
Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992.

Literature

P. Restany, 'A Rare Collection in Israel', in: Cimaise, revue de l'art actuel, no. 246, April-May 1997 (illustrated, unpaged).

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

To be included in the forthcoming Christo catalogue raisonné being prepared by Daniel Varenne, Geneva, under archive no. 16840.
Christo executed the first life-size 'Packed Tree' in Holland in 1966 as part of his exhibition at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven.

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