New season – New highlights: Christo & Jeanne-Claude 'Store Front (Project)'
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
– an innovative artist couple
For more than 50 years the two artists, Christo (1935–2020) and Jeanne–Claude (1935–2009), worked together as ‘Team Christo’. Their gigantic and astounding art projects involving wrappings of both urban and natural landmarks have made them world-famous. They have mastered the creative process from idea to implementation and documentation.
‘Store Front (Project)’ from 1964, included in this auction, is one of the central studies for the Store Front series. It has been in the Aronowitsch family since the well–established gallery owner William Aronowitsch bought the piece directly from Christo in the late 1960s and has since been in his private collection. The artwork was shown at Galerie Aronowitsch in Stockholm 1974 at the exhibition ‘Christo: Projects and Studies for Store Fronts 1964–65 and Gallery Projects 1974’. Although neither Christo nor Jeanne–Claude are sadly alive today, their final monumental installation is currently making headlines all over the world – a posthumous wrapping of the triumphal arch in Paris, ‘L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped’. Christo had been fascinated by the triumphal arch since the first time he came to Paris and rented a room nearby.
To be sold at Contemporary Art & Design
Viewing 27 October – 1 November, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm.
Open Mon – Fri 11 am – 6 pm, Sat – Sun 11 am – 5 am.
Auction 2 November, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm.
Catalogue online 20 October.
Signed Christo and dated -64. Wood, fabric, mylar, masonite, wire mesh, enamel paint, card board, papper, charcoal, pencil, 122.3 x 90 x 13 cm. Estimate 2 000 000 – 2 500 000 SEK.