Christo - Surrounded Islands (Miami) - 99x63 - Achenbach licensed print - 1982

Offset lithograph by Christo (*)
On the project “Surrounded Islands,” carried out in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited on Fine Art bright white cardboard (170g).

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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 folder, and is offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

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(*) 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 he. They married and decided to join their talents as creators. 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 created in Paris, on Visconti Street, a gigantic assemblage stacking oil and gasoline drums. This period is the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and gigantic wrapping realizations that aim to express 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 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 distinguish themselves 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, models 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 walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gateways 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 on May 31, 2020.