Christo (after) - The Umbrellas (USA) - offset lithograph...

Christo Offset Lithograph (*) About the “The Umbrellas” project, carried out simultaneously in Ibaraki, Japan, and Kern County, California. Printed on thick cotton paper (300 g/m²). Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf. Produced by Lithoseri Domberger, with a blind stamp. Includes a Certificate of Authenticity (COA). Specifications: - Sheet dimensions: 49 x 51 cm - Sheet dimensions: 37.5 x 42 cm - Year: 1991 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or displayed and has always been kept in a professional art portfolio, so it remains in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The artwork will be handled with care and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. Shipping will be registered and include a tracking number. Shipping will also include transit insurance for the final value of the artwork, with a full refund in the event 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, who was born the same year as he was. They married and decided to bring their creative talents together. The first exhibition by both artists was organized in 1961. That same year, they created wrapping projects at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they created a gigantic assemblage in Paris, on Rue Visconti, stacking oil and gasoline barrels. This period marked the starting point for thousands of proposals, including numerous completed works and poetic, monumental wrapping projects intended to express transience as an artistic form. The couple settled in New York in 1964, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became U.S. citizens. They took over spaces, wrapping, cutting, and coloring monuments and landscapes, giving the urban, rural, or maritime settings of their choice a new sculptural dimension (Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Pont Neuf in Paris, Reichstag in Berlin…). Christo and Jeanne-Claude stood out because they defended their own projects and produced them using their own resources. For each one, they created preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and screenprints), collages, models, and films, the sale of which financed the project itself. “The Gates,” their last completed project, was unveiled in New York in early 2005. It consisted of a 37-kilometer route through Central Park lined with 7,500 portals draped in saffron-colored fabric. Their next project is titled “Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado. Christo died at the age of eighty-four on May 31, 2020.

Estimación:150€

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