Christo - Surrounded Islands (Miami) - Achenbach licensed print - 1982





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Description from the seller
Christo Offset Lithograph (*)
On the project “Surrounded Islands,” carried out in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited on Fine Art gloss cardboard (170g)
Specifications:
- Page dimensions: 63.5 x 99 cm
- Year: 1982
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and is therefore offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be sent with a tracking number and certified delivery.
The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork, 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 in the same year as him. They married and decided to unite their creative talents. The first joint exhibition of the two artists was organized in 1961. In the same year they created wrappings at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they created in Paris, on Visconti Street, a gigantic assemblage stacking oil and gasoline drums. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and gigantic wrapping projects that aim to express 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, enclose monuments and landscapes, giving the urban, rural, or maritime landscapes 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 are distinguished by the fact that they themselves defend their projects, producing them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, models, 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 walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gates wrapped 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.
Tags: Aalto, Abrahmovic, Abramović, Adami, Addamiano, Ai Weiwei, Ai-Da, Akerman, Albacete, Alberti, Alcaraz, Alfaro, Alfaro Siqueiros, Alighiero Boetti, Alÿs, Andy Warhol, ARCO, Armani, Art, Artbook, Arte, Artwork, Audemars Piguet, Avia, Baccarat, Bacon, Baj, Balance, Baldaccini, Baldessari, Balenciaga, Banksy, Barbour, Barceló, Barjola, Basaldella, Basel, Basquiat, Beazley, Beckmann, Bedia, Bellmer, Benigni, Berni, Berruti, Bertoia, Beuys, Biala, Blasco, Blek le Rat, Blu, Boccioni, Boetti, Bonalumi, Borgianni, Botero, Bourgeois, Braque, Breuer, Brioni, Burberry, Burchfield, Burri, Bvlgari., Calder, Canogar, Canvas, Capucci, Carrington, Cartier, Casorati, Castellani, Cattelan, Ceccotti, Cézanne, Chagall, Chanel, Charles Eames, Chillida, Chirico, Chirino, Chuck Close, Clavé, Clemente, Clorindo, Color, Composition, Conceptual, Condé, Constantin, Contrast, Critique, Cruz-Díez, Cucinelli, Cuoghi, Dalí, Delaunay, Delaunay. Kiefer, Delvaux, Detto, Digital, Dior, Documenta, Doig, Dolce & Gabbana, Dorothea Tanning, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Dunhill, Eames, Edward Hopper, Eileen Gray, El Anatsui, El Greco, Equipo Crónica, Ernst, Escif, Exhibition, FAILE, Faith Ringgold, Fanzhi, Fear of God, Feito, Fendi, Ferragamo, Ferri, Fintan Magee, Fontana, Freud, Frida Kahlo, Gallery, Gary Hume, Genovés, Giacometti, Giacomo Balla, Giclée, Gio Ponti, Giorgio de Chirico, Giotto, Givenchy, González-Torres, Gordilo, Goya, Gucci, Gudmundur Erro, Guinovart, Guttuso, Hackett, Hélio Oiticica, Hermès, Hernández Pijuan, Hirschhorn, Hockney, Hodgkin, Holzer, Hooper, Hublot, Iglesias, Illustration, Installation, Irarrázabal, Issey Miyake, Jacobsen, Jaeger, Jasper Johns, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Miró, Judd, Juhl, Kader Attia, Kandinsky, KAWS, Keith Haring, Kenzo, Key Sage, Kiefer, Kippenberger, Kiton, Kléber, Klee, Klein, Klimt, Knoll, Kooning, Koons, Kruger, Kusama, Lacalle, Laffón, Lalique, Lauren, Layout, Le Corbusier, Lempicka, LeWitt, Louis Vuitton, Lucian Freud, Maar, Mafonso, Magistretti, Magistretti. Louis Vuitton, Magritte, Malevich, Malinowski, Man Ray, Manzoni, Mara, Marcel Duchamp, Marini, Mark Rothko, Marshall, Marvel, Masson, Matisse, McCampbell, McQueen, Mendieta, Miami, Mies Van der Rohe, Mimmo Paladino, Modigliani, Mogensen, Mompó, Mondrian, Moore, Morandi, Murakami, Nauman, Nelson, NOAH, Noguchi, O’Keefe, Oehlen, Off-White, Oppenheim, Orozco, Oscar de la Renta, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Palazuelo, Palette, Panerai, Patek Philippe, Pejac, Pérez-Villalta, Perriand, Pesce, Peyton, Picabia, Piene, Piet Mondrian, Pistoletto, Playmobil, Plensa, Pokémon, Polke, Pollock, Poolsen, Prada, Printmaking, Quetglas, Rachael Whiteread, Rafols-Casamada, Redondela, Rembrandt, Reproduction, Richter, Rimowa, Rivers, Roberto Matta, Rockwell, Rodin, Rolex, Rone, Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Rubins, Ruff, Ruscha, Saatchi, Saint Laurent, Saint Phalle, Salcedo, Salvador Dalí, Saura, Saville, Savinio, Schaffhausen, Schütte, Scully, Serra, Shafak, Sherman, Sicilia, Signed, Silkscreen, Slinkachu, Soto, Sottsass, Spalletti, Starck, State, Steinbach, Stella, Tabaimo, TAG Heuer, Takashi Murakami, Tàpies, Taryn, Teixidor, Testa, Texture, Thomas & Elmo, Tiffany, Tobey, Tumi, Tuymans, Typography, Uffizi Gallery, Úrculo, Urquiola, Uslé, Vacheron, Valdés, Valentino, Van Cleef & Arpels, Van Gogh, Varela, Varo, Vasarely, Vedova, Verner Panton, Versace, Versus Versace, Vitra, VTech, Ward, Wegner, Weitzman, Weston, Wolfgang Tillmans, Woodcut, Xiaodong, Yayoi Kusama, Yturralde, Yves Saint Laurent, Zhang Xiaogang.
Seller's Story
Christo Offset Lithograph (*)
On the project “Surrounded Islands,” carried out in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited on Fine Art gloss cardboard (170g)
Specifications:
- Page dimensions: 63.5 x 99 cm
- Year: 1982
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and is therefore offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be sent with a tracking number and certified delivery.
The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork, 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 in the same year as him. They married and decided to unite their creative talents. The first joint exhibition of the two artists was organized in 1961. In the same year they created wrappings at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they created in Paris, on Visconti Street, a gigantic assemblage stacking oil and gasoline drums. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and gigantic wrapping projects that aim to express 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, enclose monuments and landscapes, giving the urban, rural, or maritime landscapes 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 are distinguished by the fact that they themselves defend their projects, producing them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, models, 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 walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gates wrapped 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.
Tags: Aalto, Abrahmovic, Abramović, Adami, Addamiano, Ai Weiwei, Ai-Da, Akerman, Albacete, Alberti, Alcaraz, Alfaro, Alfaro Siqueiros, Alighiero Boetti, Alÿs, Andy Warhol, ARCO, Armani, Art, Artbook, Arte, Artwork, Audemars Piguet, Avia, Baccarat, Bacon, Baj, Balance, Baldaccini, Baldessari, Balenciaga, Banksy, Barbour, Barceló, Barjola, Basaldella, Basel, Basquiat, Beazley, Beckmann, Bedia, Bellmer, Benigni, Berni, Berruti, Bertoia, Beuys, Biala, Blasco, Blek le Rat, Blu, Boccioni, Boetti, Bonalumi, Borgianni, Botero, Bourgeois, Braque, Breuer, Brioni, Burberry, Burchfield, Burri, Bvlgari., Calder, Canogar, Canvas, Capucci, Carrington, Cartier, Casorati, Castellani, Cattelan, Ceccotti, Cézanne, Chagall, Chanel, Charles Eames, Chillida, Chirico, Chirino, Chuck Close, Clavé, Clemente, Clorindo, Color, Composition, Conceptual, Condé, Constantin, Contrast, Critique, Cruz-Díez, Cucinelli, Cuoghi, Dalí, Delaunay, Delaunay. Kiefer, Delvaux, Detto, Digital, Dior, Documenta, Doig, Dolce & Gabbana, Dorothea Tanning, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Dunhill, Eames, Edward Hopper, Eileen Gray, El Anatsui, El Greco, Equipo Crónica, Ernst, Escif, Exhibition, FAILE, Faith Ringgold, Fanzhi, Fear of God, Feito, Fendi, Ferragamo, Ferri, Fintan Magee, Fontana, Freud, Frida Kahlo, Gallery, Gary Hume, Genovés, Giacometti, Giacomo Balla, Giclée, Gio Ponti, Giorgio de Chirico, Giotto, Givenchy, González-Torres, Gordilo, Goya, Gucci, Gudmundur Erro, Guinovart, Guttuso, Hackett, Hélio Oiticica, Hermès, Hernández Pijuan, Hirschhorn, Hockney, Hodgkin, Holzer, Hooper, Hublot, Iglesias, Illustration, Installation, Irarrázabal, Issey Miyake, Jacobsen, Jaeger, Jasper Johns, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Miró, Judd, Juhl, Kader Attia, Kandinsky, KAWS, Keith Haring, Kenzo, Key Sage, Kiefer, Kippenberger, Kiton, Kléber, Klee, Klein, Klimt, Knoll, Kooning, Koons, Kruger, Kusama, Lacalle, Laffón, Lalique, Lauren, Layout, Le Corbusier, Lempicka, LeWitt, Louis Vuitton, Lucian Freud, Maar, Mafonso, Magistretti, Magistretti. Louis Vuitton, Magritte, Malevich, Malinowski, Man Ray, Manzoni, Mara, Marcel Duchamp, Marini, Mark Rothko, Marshall, Marvel, Masson, Matisse, McCampbell, McQueen, Mendieta, Miami, Mies Van der Rohe, Mimmo Paladino, Modigliani, Mogensen, Mompó, Mondrian, Moore, Morandi, Murakami, Nauman, Nelson, NOAH, Noguchi, O’Keefe, Oehlen, Off-White, Oppenheim, Orozco, Oscar de la Renta, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Palazuelo, Palette, Panerai, Patek Philippe, Pejac, Pérez-Villalta, Perriand, Pesce, Peyton, Picabia, Piene, Piet Mondrian, Pistoletto, Playmobil, Plensa, Pokémon, Polke, Pollock, Poolsen, Prada, Printmaking, Quetglas, Rachael Whiteread, Rafols-Casamada, Redondela, Rembrandt, Reproduction, Richter, Rimowa, Rivers, Roberto Matta, Rockwell, Rodin, Rolex, Rone, Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Rubins, Ruff, Ruscha, Saatchi, Saint Laurent, Saint Phalle, Salcedo, Salvador Dalí, Saura, Saville, Savinio, Schaffhausen, Schütte, Scully, Serra, Shafak, Sherman, Sicilia, Signed, Silkscreen, Slinkachu, Soto, Sottsass, Spalletti, Starck, State, Steinbach, Stella, Tabaimo, TAG Heuer, Takashi Murakami, Tàpies, Taryn, Teixidor, Testa, Texture, Thomas & Elmo, Tiffany, Tobey, Tumi, Tuymans, Typography, Uffizi Gallery, Úrculo, Urquiola, Uslé, Vacheron, Valdés, Valentino, Van Cleef & Arpels, Van Gogh, Varela, Varo, Vasarely, Vedova, Verner Panton, Versace, Versus Versace, Vitra, VTech, Ward, Wegner, Weitzman, Weston, Wolfgang Tillmans, Woodcut, Xiaodong, Yayoi Kusama, Yturralde, Yves Saint Laurent, Zhang Xiaogang.
