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

Offset lithograph by Christo (*)

About the project “The Umbrellas”, carried out simultaneously in Ibaraki, Japan and Kern County in California.

Thick cotton paper support (300 g/m2).
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: 1991
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed nor exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and thus kept in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured 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 between 1952 and 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 talents as creators. The first joint exhibition of the two artists was organized in 1961. 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 Rue Visconti, a gigantic installation by stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous realizations and gigantic wrapping projects that seek to express 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, wrapping, cutting, coloring 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, graphic works (lithographs and screenprints), collages, maquettes, and films whose sale funds the project proper. “The Gates”, their latest realization, was presented in New York at the beginning of 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7500 gates wrapped with saffron-colored cloth. Their next project is titled “Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.

Christo died at eighty-four, on May 31, 2020.