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Air Package, Project for the Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1968

Christo

Associated Names

Christo

Sculptor, American, born Bulgaria, 1935 - 2020

The sculpture features a large, spherical object wrapped in plastic and bound with strings or ropes, resting on a gray platform. The sphere is primarily white with brown strings crisscrossing over its surface. Two small, abstract figures painted in gray stand on either side of the sphere on the platform. The base is made of a smooth, wooden or composite material.

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Artwork overview

Medium

polyethylene, rope, twine, Plexiglas globe, wood, and paint
Credit Line

Gift of a Private Collector in honor of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Dimensions

overall: 42 x 61 x 73.5 cm (16 9/16 x 24 x 28 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

2001.2.3
Copyright

© Christo 1968

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection; gift 2001 to NGA.

Associated Names

Anonymous

Exhibition History

2001

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works, 1958-1969, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2001, no. 291, repro.

2002

Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2002-2003, no. 8, erpro.

2009

Die Grosse Unschuld [1968. The Great Innocents], Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2009, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q63861692

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