First Paris sale of Christo and Jeanne-Claude s art collection brings in nearly $10m theartnewspaper.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theartnewspaper.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sotheby's auction house in Paris has Christo and Jeanne-Claude's personal art collection up for auction. A sketch for their work "The Umbrellas" sold for five times the estimated value.
Sothebyâs Christo Auction, Part 1, Nets $9.8 Million
The 28 most valuable works he and Jeanne-Claude collected and created were offered in a live auction on Wednesday; a timed online sale of another 347 lots will end on Thursday.
A 1964 Andy Warhol, âJackie,â went for about $1.1 million at the auction.Credit.Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Christo and Jeanne-Claude Collection; via Sothebyâs
By Scott Reyburn
Feb. 17, 2021
The Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who died last May at 84, was famous for the spectacular ambition of the environmental projects he created in collaboration with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009. Over the decades, as they tirelessly battled (not always successfully) to bring celebrated temporary artworks like âThe Gatesâ in New Yorkâs Central Park to fruition, Christo and Jeanne-Claude also acquired pieces by friends and contemporaries.
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