Name: CHRISTO (B. 1935)
Brand: The Mastaba, Project for Kunstverein Köln
Price: 3000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

CHRISTO (B. 1935)
The Mastaba, Project for Kunstverein Köln
screenprint, collotype and photo-collage in colors, on Fabriano paper, and metal oil drum, 1986, the print signed in pencil, inscribed P.P. 4/10, a printer's proof aside from the edition of 200 (there were also 50 artist's proofs), printed by Domberger KG, Stuttgart, published by the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, with the original red and yellow lacquered oil drum from the installation (as issued)
Sheet: 32⁷⁄₈ x 26 in. (835 x 660 mm.)
Oil drum: 23 in. (height) x 14¹⁄₂ in. (diameter) (600 x 390 mm.)

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This print was sold by the Cologne Kunstverein to members of the museum to support the creation of Christo and Jean-Claude’s Mastaba. The mastaba was eventually built of out 1000 oil barrels for an exhibition at the Cologne Kunstverein, titled The 60s: Cologne’s Emergence as Art Metropolis, From Happening to Art Market in 1986. Each print was sold with an oil drum from the original installation, depicted in the print as a floor-to-ceiling structure. The title references the flat, rectangular tombs of ancient Egypt built long before the pyramids of Egypt’s New Kingdom period. Christo would go on to build increasingly larger versions of the Mastaba structure in Philadelphia, Houston, Abu Dhabi, and London.