Christo (after) - The Umbrellas (USA) - Offset lithograph - 51x49 - Domberger licensed print 1991 - Dry Stamp *COA*

Offset lithography by Christo (*)
About the project “The Umbrellas”, executed simultaneously in Ibaraki, Japan and Kern County in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited by Lithoseri Domberger, with dry stamp.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

- Sheet dimensions: 49 x 51 cm
- Sheet dimensions: 37.5 x 42 cm
- Year: 1989
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and therefore remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation 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 in the same year as him. They married and decided to combine their talents as creators. The first exhibition of the two artists was organized in 1961. In that year they created wrappings at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they carried out in Paris, on Visconti Street, a gigantic assembly stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period is the starting point of thousands of proposals among which numerous realizations, projects of poetic and gigantic wrappings that seek to manifest the ephemeral as artistic expression.
The couple settled in New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They took over space, wrap, cut, color, monuments and landscapes giving to 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, produce them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, maquettes and films whose sale funds the project proper. “The Gates,” their last realization, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7500 gate structures wrapped with 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.