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Christo
1935-2020
Store Front's No. 4.3.2 (Project)
1965
20 x 27 1/4 inches (50.8 x 69.2 cm)
Acrylic, colored pencil, enamel paint, fabric, graphite pencil, Masonite, nails, paper, Plexiglas, silver pen, tape, and wax crayon on wood.
2014.36
Gift of the Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein Collection.
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Soon after moving to New York in 1964, Christo, influenced by the city's vernacular architecture, started making life-sized sculptures of storefronts. This is a study for such a sculpture, Four Store Fronts Corner (1965; collection of the artist). Done at the same time as Christo's first Package sculptures, the storefronts, with their closed doors and draped windows, evince a similar focus on concealment and prefigure the wrapped monuments he conceived later with his wife, Jeanne-Claude.
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