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Christo

Wrapped Telephone

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000‡♠
Lot Details
polyethylene, rope, telephone and telephone cord
signed and dated 'Christo 1963' on the underside
11.5 x 26.5 x 28 cm (4 1/2 x 10 3/8 x 11 in.)
Executed in 1963.
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“In obscuring the object’s substance and denying its function, Christo makes his packages self-contradictions, caught between the literal and the metamorphic. Encased in a chrysalis, the objects are metaphysically in transit.”

—David Bourdon



Christo and Jean-Claude with Wrapped Telephone (1964) and Wrapped Toy Horse (1963), New York City, 1965. Image: Archives Yves Debraine, Artwork: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2025




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