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Surrounded Islands, Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1983

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Medium

collage with photograph by Wolfgang Volz, enamel paint, graphite, colored pencil, ballpoint pen, and tape on wove paper

Dimensions

Overall: 31.8 x 33 cm (12 1/2 x 13 in.)

framed: 32.7 x 34 x 3.3 cm (12 7/8 x 13 3/8 x 1 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2001.9.6

Artists / Makers

Christo (artist) American, born Bulgaria, 1935 - 2020

Image Use

lower right in graphite: Christo / 1983; upper left verso of support in black crayon: (copyright) Christo 1983

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New York; gift 2001 to NGA.

Vogel, Herbert, Mr. and Mrs.

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. 20, as Surrounded Islands, Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida.

2009: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, 2009, unnumbered catalogue.

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.

Surrounded Islands, Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1983