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

Offset lithograph of Christo (*)
On 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).

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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 portfolio, thus offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard box. Shipping will be tracked 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 the two artists was organized in 1961. In that 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 barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and monumental wrapping projects that seek to express the ephemeral as art. The couple moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became U.S. citizens. They take possession 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 defend 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 route through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gate-like arches wrapped in saffron-colored fabric. Their next project is entitled “Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.

Christo passed away at eighty-four years old on May 31, 2020.