Christo - Wrapped Coast (Little Bay, Australia)

Christo Offset Lithograph (*)
On the project “Wrapped Coast,” executed in 1969 at Little Bay (Australia)
Published by La Poligrafa (Barcelona)

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 package. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport 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 the same year they created wrappers at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they created in Paris, on Visconti street, a gigantic installation stacking oil barrels and gasoline barrels. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and gigantic wrapping works aimed at expressing the ephemeral as an artistic expression.
The couple moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They take over space, wrap, cut, color, monuments and landscapes, giving the 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 are known for defending their projects themselves, producing them with their own means. For each project they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and screenprints), collages, maquettes and films whose sale funds the project itself. “The Gates,” their last realization, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer pedestrian route through Central Park dotted with 7,500 archways wrapped in saffron-colored fabric. Their next project is titled ”Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.
Christo passed away at the age of eighty-four on May 31, 2020."