{"id":315,"date":"2021-03-04T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=315"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:58:52","slug":"first-paris-sale-of-christo-and-jeanne-claudes-art-collection-brings-in-nearly-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/first-paris-sale-of-christo-and-jeanne-claudes-art-collection-brings-in-nearly-10m\/","title":{"rendered":"First Paris sale of Christo and Jeanne-Claude\u2019s art collection brings in nearly $10m"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"fr-standfirst\">Works by the artists, and their friends, largely exceeded estimates in the white glove auction. Part two will take place tomorrow<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">The first part of Sotheby\u2019s two-day sale of Christo and Jeanne-Claude\u2019s personal art collection generated \u20ac8.0m ($9.8m) in Paris this afternoon,\u00a0surpassing\u00a0its \u20ac2.5-\u20ac3.8m estimate, with all 29 lots finding buyers.\u00a0Christo,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who died last May<\/a>\u00a0in New York, and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, were known to finance the production of their ambitious, landscape transforming projects themselves through the direct sales of their own work. But they also amassed a collection of works by other notable artists over their decades-long careers, including Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">Leading the white glove\u00a0sale were\u00a0two drawings by Christo for\u00a0<em>The Umbrellas (Joint\u00a0Project for Japan and the USA<\/em>), when the pair installed 3,100 towering\u00a0umbrellas in the valleys of\u00a0Ibaraki and California on the same day in October 1991.\u00a0Christo\u2019s drawings for the yellow American umbrellas\u00a0soared to\u00a0\u20ac1.7m\u2014setting an international auction record for the artist\u2014while\u00a0his drawings for the blue\u00a0Japanese\u00a0umbrellas fetched \u20ac1.2m.\u00a0Each\u00a0piece,\u00a0estimated at \u20ac200,000-\u20ac300,000, was\u00a0acquired\u00a0by an American collector. Sotheby\u2019s also sold Christo\u2019s preparatory drawings for\u00a0<em>The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City<\/em>\u00a0(2005) in a private sale ahead of the auction to an American collector for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">An early\u00a0<em>Empaquetage\u2019 (Package<\/em>), a sculptural work made of fabric and rope mounted on board that Christo made while living in Paris in 1961, also exceeded its estimate, bringing in \u20ac520,700. Similar pieces were exhibited in the Centre Pompidou\u2019s exhibition,\u00a0<em>Christo and Jeanne Claude, Paris!<\/em>, last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">\u201cChristo has just had an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and the Arc de Triomphe will be wrapped next September\/October, so collectors are looking at\u00a0his\u00a0works and this reverberates on the market,\u201d\u00a0says Eddie Hautchamp, the head of the contemporary art sale at Sotheby\u2019s Paris branch. One of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last projects Christo was working on<\/a>, the\u00a0<em>L\u2019Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped\u2019<\/em>\u00a0will see the Champs-Elys\u00e9es monument\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrapped in silvery blue fabric<\/a> and red rope later this year. \u201cEven before the catalogue was published, we had many enquiries from collectors about the contents of the sale,\u201d\u00a0Hautchamp adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-comp cb-item\">\n<div class=\"mw-comp\">\n<div class=\"mw-media-cont is-vertical\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dmdlnu87i51n1.cloudfront.net\/v1\/uk\/ckla0tbd6000k3h5pasrohq0i\/0x0:2827x3543\/960x960\/andy_warhol_jackie_est_700_000_1_000_000_eur.jpg\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mw-media-element lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/dmdlnu87i51n1.cloudfront.net\/v1\/uk\/ckla0tbd6000k3h5pasrohq0i\/0x0:2827x3543\/960x960\/andy_warhol_jackie_est_700_000_1_000_000_eur.jpg\" alt=\"Christo and Jeanne-Claude originally gave Andy Warhol's silkscreen ink on linen Jackie (1964) as a present to the American art critic David Bourdon, and later bought it back. It sold at Sotheby's Paris for \u20ac920,000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dmdlnu87i51n1.cloudfront.net\/v1\/uk\/ckla0tbd6000k3h5pasrohq0i\/0x0:2827x3543\/960x960\/andy_warhol_jackie_est_700_000_1_000_000_eur.jpg\" data-credit=\"Andy Warhol originally gave his silkscreen Jackie (1964) as a present to the American art critic David Bourdon, whom Christo  and Jeanne-Claude were also friendly with and they later bought the work from him. It sold at Sotheby's Paris for \u20ac920,000 \" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"mw-description-cont\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"caption-credit-cont\"><span class=\"caption\">Andy Warhol originally gave his silkscreen Jackie (1964) as a present to the American art critic David Bourdon, whom Christo and Jeanne-Claude were also friendly with and they later bought the work from him. It sold at Sotheby&#8217;s Paris for \u20ac920,000<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">Besides the works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the first sale included pieces by other artists that were either gifts or direct purchases. Lucio Fontana, one of the first people to acquire any of Christo\u2019s work, met the young couple in Milan in 1963 and invited Jeanne-Claude to choose one of his own\u00a0pieces. The slashed canvas she selected,\u00a0<em>Concetto Spaziale, Attesa<\/em>\u00a0(1963), dedicated affectionately to Jeanne-Claude, fetched \u20ac920,000. Yves Klein\u00a0also\u00a0gave the pair a monochromatic painting in his signature pigment, International Yves Klein Blue, in 1962,\u00a0in exchange for\u00a0Christo\u2019s\u00a0portrait\u00a0of Klein and his wife\u00a0taken\u00a0to celebrate their wedding. The work by Klein sold for \u20ac436,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">Elsewhere in the sale was Andy Warhol\u2019s\u00a0silkscreen\u00a0<em>Jackie<\/em>\u00a0(1964), \u20ac920,000, which Warhol had originally given as a present to the\u00a0American\u00a0art critic David Bourdon. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who were also friendly with Bourdon,\u00a0later bought\u00a0it from him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp cb-item\">The second part of the sale, featuring 345 lots, including works by artists including Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Jenny Holzer and Hannah Wilke, takes place\u00a0online tomorrow at 11am CET.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Works by the artists, and their friends, largely exceeded estimates in the white glove auction. Part two will take place tomorrow The first part of Sotheby\u2019s two-day sale of Christo and Jeanne-Claude\u2019s personal art collection generated \u20ac8.0m ($9.8m) in Paris this afternoon,\u00a0surpassing\u00a0its \u20ac2.5-\u20ac3.8m estimate, with all 29 lots finding buyers.\u00a0Christo,\u00a0who died last May\u00a0in New York, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[94,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news","12":"tag-artists","13":"tag-christo"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>First Paris sale of Christo and Jeanne-Claude\u2019s art collection brings in nearly $10m - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Works by the artists, and their friends, largely exceeded estimates in the white glove auction. 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