Christo (after) - The Umbrellas (Japan) - Offset lithograph - Domberger print 1991 - Dry stamp *COA*

Christo offset lithograph (*)
About the project “The Umbrellas,” executed simultaneously in Ibaraki, Japan and Kern County in California.
Deluxe edition on heavyweight cotton vellum paper. (220g)
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited by Lithoseri Domberger, with blind 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 or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, hence in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be registered 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 in the same year as him. They married and decided to unite their talents as creators. The first exhibition of both artists was organized in 1961. That same year they created wrappings in the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they carried out in Paris, on Visconti street, a gigantic assemblage stacking oil and gasoline drums. This period is the starting point of thousands of proposals, among which numerous poetic and monumental wrapping projects 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 take over space, wrap, cut, color, monuments and landscapes giving to 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, produce them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and screen prints), collages, maquettes and films whose sale funds the project itself. “The Gates,” their latest realization, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 porticos wrapped in saffron-colored fabric. Their next project is titled “Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.
Christo died at eighty-four years old on May 31, 2020.