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






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Christo Surrounded Islands (Miami) – Achenbach licensed print from 1982, an offset lithograph on 170 g Fine Art board measuring 63.5 x 99 cm, in excellent condition and never framed or exhibited, produced in Germany.
Description from the seller
Offset lithograph
Regarding the project “Surrounded Islands,” carried out in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Printed on Fine Art glossy card stock (170 g).
***. LAST REMAINING COPIES ***
Specifications:
- Sheet dimensions: 63.5 x 99 cm
- Year: 1982
- 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 insured with a tracking number.
The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the work with a full refund 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 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 produced in Paris, on Visconti street, a gigantic installation stacking oil barrels and gasoline drums. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and monumental wrapping projects that aim to express the ephemeral as artistic expression.
They moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They took ownership of 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 distinguished by the fact that they themselves defend their projects, producing them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphics (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, maquettes and films whose sales finance the project itself. “The Gates,” their last realized work, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park studded 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 passed away at eighty-four on May 31, 2020.
Seller's Story
Offset lithograph
Regarding the project “Surrounded Islands,” carried out in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Printed on Fine Art glossy card stock (170 g).
***. LAST REMAINING COPIES ***
Specifications:
- Sheet dimensions: 63.5 x 99 cm
- Year: 1982
- 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 insured with a tracking number.
The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the work with a full refund 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 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 produced in Paris, on Visconti street, a gigantic installation stacking oil barrels and gasoline drums. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and monumental wrapping projects that aim to express the ephemeral as artistic expression.
They moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They took ownership of 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 distinguished by the fact that they themselves defend their projects, producing them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphics (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, maquettes and films whose sales finance the project itself. “The Gates,” their last realized work, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park studded 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 passed away at eighty-four on May 31, 2020.
