Surrounded Islands, Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida
1983
Artist, American, born Bulgaria, 1935 - 2020
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, enamel paint, aerial photograph by Wolfgang Volz, and fabric sample, on two sheets of paper in two parts
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Credit Line
Gift of a Private Collector in honor of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
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Dimensions
sheet (left panel): 164.2 x 106.2 cm (64 5/8 x 41 13/16 in.)
sheet (right panel): 164.7 x 37.9 cm (64 13/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
overall size (for both panels): 165.1 x 147.3 cm (65 x 58 in.) -
Accession
2001.2.11.a-b
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Copyright
© Christo 1983
Associated Artworks
Surrounded Islands, Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida [right panel]
Christo
1983
Surrounded Islands, Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida [left panel]
Christo
1983
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection; gift 2001 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, 2002-2003, no. 21.
2006
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland, 2006, no. 62.
Bibliography
2002
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, 2002-2003, no. 21.
Inscriptions
left panel, bottom verso of support in black crayon: (layout) 24A / ONE WORK IN 2 ITEMS: THESE 2 ITEMS ARE ONE WORK, / THEY MUST NOT BE SEPARATED AND MUST BE HUNG / ACCORDING TO THIS LAY OUT; right panel, lower left in black wax crayon: Christo 1983; upper verso of support in black crayon: (layout) / 24B / ONE WORK IN 2 ITEMS: THESE / 2 ITEMS ARE ONE WORK / THEY MUST NOT BE / SEPARATED AND MUST / BE HUNG ACCORDING TO / THIS LAY OUT
Wikidata ID
Q64540010