Christo - Wrapped Coast (Little Bay

Christo offset lithograph (*) About the project “Wrapped Coast,” carried out in 1969 at Little Bay (Australia) Published by La Polígrafa (Barcelona) *** LAST REMAINING COPIES *** Specifications: - Sheet dimensions: 63.5 x 99 cm - Year: 1977 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is offered in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be traceable with a tracking number. The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer. (*) Christo Vladimirov Javacheff was born in 1935 in Babrovo, Bulgaria. He studied fine arts in Sofia from 1952 to 1956. Christo settled in Paris in 1958 and met Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, born the same year as him. They married and decided to join their creative talents. The first exhibition of both artists was organized in 1961. In that same year they created packaging installations in the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they created in Paris, on rue Visconti, a gigantic assemblage stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period is the starting point of thousands of proposals including numerous realizations, poetic and gigantic packaging projects that seek to manifest the ephemeral as artistic expression. The couple moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became North American citizens. They take over space, wrap, cut, color, monuments and landscapes giving to urban, rural or maritime landscapes of their choosing a new sculptural dimension (Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Pont Neuf in Paris, Reichstag in Berlin…). Christo and Jeanne-Claude distinguish themselves by the fact that they themselves defend their projects, produce them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, maquettes and films whose sale finances the project itself. “The Gates,” their last realization, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 arches wrapped in saffron-colored fabric. Their next project is titled ”Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado. Christo died at eighty-four on May 31, 2020.

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