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

Offset lithography by Christo (*)

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

Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited by Lithoseri Domberger, with a blind 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, so it remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

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

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork 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 combine their creative talents. The first 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 stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals, among which numerous wrapping projects and poetic, monumental works 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 appropriated space, wrapped, cut, colored, 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 personally defend their projects, producing them with their own resources. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, maquettes and films whose sale finances the project itself. “The Gates,” their last realization, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer-long traverse through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gate structures wrapped with saffron-colored fabrics. Their next project is titled “Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.

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