Jean-Claude - Unoriginal Sins

UNTITLED (VALLEY CURTAIN). 1972?

paul robertson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:45:04 +0000

N.p.: n.p.: n.d. (1972?)

10. 5 x 15cm, 4pp full colour image on paper. The rest of the card is blank. Probably a promotional item for Christo and Jean-Claude's monumental Valley Curtain project. VG+.

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THREE WORKS IN PROGRESS/OBJET TROUVE OBJEKTE FLUXUS. 1995.

paul robertson — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:08:16 +0000

Berlin: Galerie Georg Nothelfer, 1995

10 x 21cm, 1pp typographic design announcement card for an exhibition of three public artworks by Christo and Jean-Claude - Wrapped Reichstag, The Gates and Over The River. A further exhibition of found object works is also noted. VG+ Unmailed example

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GROPIUS NACHT. 2001.

paul robertson — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:04:46 +0000

Berlin: Martin Gropius Bau, 2001

21 x 10.5cm, 6pp announcement with eight small colour images of major public installations. VG+.

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EARLY WORKS 1958 – 1969. 2001.

paul robertson — Mon, 02 May 2022 09:57:06 +0000

Berlin: Martin Gropius Bau, 2001

21 x 10cm, 8pp announcement with seventeen small colour images of small scale wrapped works and major public installations. VG+.

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Berlin: Martin Gropius Bau, 2001

21 x 10cm, 2pp floor plan for the exhibition. VG+.

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CHRISTO WRAPS THE MUSEUM. 1968.

paul robertson — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:14:20 +0000

NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1968

19 x 19cm, 4pp announcement card for the famous non-wrapping of the MOMA building by Christo and Jean-Claude (proposed but did not happen). Printed black on brown with one photomontage image of the wrapped building on the front. The exhibition consisted of the various scale models, photomontages and drawings for the putative event. VG+.

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WRAPPED KUNSTHALLE, BERN, SWITZERLAND. 1968.

paul robertson — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:16:00 +0000

Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1968

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp limited edition artist's postcard issued on the occasion of Christo and Jean-Claude's wrapping of the building with a colour image on the front, verso details of the event. VG+. Scarce.

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A SELECTION FROM INTERNATIONAL SOURCE. 1973

paul robertson — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:35:30 +0000

Sacramento: Composer/Performer Editons, 1973
10 x 8cm, 2pp artist’s postcard published by Ken Friedman in his role as editor (with Stan Lunette) of the artist’s journal International Sources. Recto is an image of Christo and Jean-Claude's monumental Running Fence in b/w. Verso the usual postcard design with publication details. Fine.

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WRAPPED REICHSTAG. 1994. SIGNED BY CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE.

paul robertson — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:43:29 +0000

Berlin: Der Speigel/Christo, 1994
31.5 x 32cm, two part cardboard box with printed label content of a 58 x 80cm, full colour poster as published in the German newspaper Der Speigel (folded into the box). This is one of an unknown number of such prints that was boldly signed in blue crayon by both artists as part of the effort to raise the funds for the event. the image is a Christo drawing of the eventual building covered in fabric. Fine in like box.

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