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Christo and Jeanne-Claude — Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings, Project for 2 Broadway, 20 Exchange Place (S. 150)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings, Project for 2 Broadway, 20 Exchange Place (S. 150)

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings is a lithograph in colors with collage elements including fabric, thread, city maps, and mixed media on mounted Arches paper. This project drawing exemplifies the artists' monumental vision of temporarily transforming urban architecture through wrapping.

Medium
Lithograph in colours (attenuated to blue) with collage of fabric, thread, city map (Japanese rice paper Chine-collé), and masking tape, with additions of charcoal, prisma-colour, and pencil, on Arches Cover paper mounted to Museum Board (as issued), the full sheet.

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January 18, 2023

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings, Project for 2 Broadway, 20 Exchange Place (S. 150)

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings is a lithograph in colors with collage elements including fabric, thread, city maps, and mixed media on mounted Arches paper. This project drawing exemplifies the artists' monumental vision of temporarily transforming urban architecture through wrapping.

Medium
Lithograph in colours (attenuated to blue) with collage of fabric, thread, city map (Japanese rice paper Chine-collé), and masking tape, with additions of charcoal, prisma-colour, and pencil, on Arches Cover paper mounted to Museum Board (as issued), the full sheet.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Blue, Monumental, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Urban, Fabric Collage, Architecture, Lithograph, Contemporary, Bulgarian

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