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Valley Curtain

A work made of collage of orange fabric with graphite and colored pencils, with smudging and black ball-point pen, heightened with white acrylic, stapled to ivory wood-pulp laminate board.

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  • A work made of collage of orange fabric with graphite and colored pencils, with smudging and black ball-point pen, heightened with white acrylic, stapled to ivory wood-pulp laminate board.

Date:

1972

Artist:

Christo
American, born Bulgaria, 1935-2020

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Christo

Title

Valley Curtain

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

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1972

Medium

Collage of orange fabric with graphite and colored pencils, with smudging and black ball-point pen, heightened with white acrylic, stapled to ivory wood-pulp laminate board

Credit Line

Gift of Elizabeth Stein

Reference Number

1999.282

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