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Christo
Wrapped Payphone
- Estimate
- £20,000 - 30,000♠
Lot Details
New York City payphone (steel), wrapped in sackcloth and transparent polyethylene with rope and twine,
1988
54 x 21.5 x 24 cm (21 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
signed, dated '1988' and numbered 'H.C. 2/2' in black paint on a fabric label affixed to the reverse (an hors commerce example, the edition was 30 and 8 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York.
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Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"Just a New York conversation, gossip all of the time
Did you hear who did what to whom, happens all the time
Who has touched and who has dabbled here in the city of shows
Opening, closings, bad repartee, everybody knows."
Lou Reed, New York Telephone Conversation
Did you hear who did what to whom, happens all the time
Who has touched and who has dabbled here in the city of shows
Opening, closings, bad repartee, everybody knows."
Lou Reed, New York Telephone Conversation
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