About The Work
This limited edition, hand disned offset lithograph on 110 lb. Crane Lettra Cover stock commemorates Christo's exhibition "Wrap In Wrap Out", which took place at the MCA’s original location on 237 East Ontario Street, Chicago. The project became the first public building Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, wrapped in the United States. In an illuminating 2010 article entitled, "A daring plan to wrap a Chicago museum raises city ire – and makes art history," author Robin Amer recounts how Christo came to choose Chicago -- or rather how Chicago chose New York based artist Christo: "During a recent conversation he [Christo] ticked off the list of buildings he approached in downtown Manhattan starting in 1961. “Number 2 Broadway, number 20 Exchange Place,” he recalled. “We tried to wrap a building at Times Square. They all said no. Christo said he quickly realized that his best hope to wrap a building – his first in North America – would be to wrap a museum, which might be more amenable to his strange proposition. Christo and Jeanne-Claude approached New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1967. The museum was interested, but Christo said they failed to secure permission for the show from the New York Fire Department or from the museum’s insurance company. So New York said no, but Chicago said yes. It was a fateful decision." The show was a resounding success and it paved the way for Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude to wrap buildings around the country leading to their legendary "The Gates" project in New York City.
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
About Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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Four-color offset lithograph on 110 lb. Crane Lettra Cover stock, with an elegant gold foil stamp
22.30 x 30.00 in
56.6 x 76.2 cm
Hand signed in graphite pencil by Christo on the front. Also elegant gold foil stamp.
About The Work
This limited edition, hand disned offset lithograph on 110 lb. Crane Lettra Cover stock commemorates Christo's exhibition "Wrap In Wrap Out", which took place at the MCA’s original location on 237 East Ontario Street, Chicago. The project became the first public building Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, wrapped in the United States. In an illuminating 2010 article entitled, "A daring plan to wrap a Chicago museum raises city ire – and makes art history," author Robin Amer recounts how Christo came to choose Chicago -- or rather how Chicago chose New York based artist Christo: "During a recent conversation he [Christo] ticked off the list of buildings he approached in downtown Manhattan starting in 1961. “Number 2 Broadway, number 20 Exchange Place,” he recalled. “We tried to wrap a building at Times Square. They all said no. Christo said he quickly realized that his best hope to wrap a building – his first in North America – would be to wrap a museum, which might be more amenable to his strange proposition. Christo and Jeanne-Claude approached New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1967. The museum was interested, but Christo said they failed to secure permission for the show from the New York Fire Department or from the museum’s insurance company. So New York said no, but Chicago said yes. It was a fateful decision." The show was a resounding success and it paved the way for Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude to wrap buildings around the country leading to their legendary "The Gates" project in New York City.
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
About Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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- News & Events: 7 Innovative Mobile Abodes (and the Artworks They Curiously Resemble)
- Art 101: Looking to Start Buying Art? Here Are 9 Tips From Seasoned Experts on How to Build a Great Collection
- News & Events: 10 of the Best Artworks at Art Cologne 2016
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- Interviews & Features: Inside Collector Sue Stoffel's Upper West Side Home, a Hive for Emerging Art and Spirited Soirées
Published by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago
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