Christo - Wrapped Coast (Little Bay, Australia) - 99x65 - Poligrafa licensed print

Offset lithography by Christo (*)
About the project “Wrapped Coast,” carried out in 1969 in Little Bay (Australia)
Published by La Poligrafa (Barcelona)

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Specifications:

- Page dimensions: 63.5 x 99 cm
- Year: 1977
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, so it is offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

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

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with a 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 combine their talents as creators. The first 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 carried out in Paris, on Rue Visconti, a gigantic assemblage stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period is the starting point of thousands of proposals, among which numerous realizations, poetic wrapping projects and gigantic works that express the ephemerality as artistic expression.

The couple settled in New York in 1964, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became North American citizens. They take over space, wrap, cut out, 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 distinguished themselves in that they themselves defend their projects, producing them with their own resources. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and screenprints), collages, maquettes, 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 lined with 7,500 gates wrapped in saffron-colored fabrics. Their next project is titled “Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.

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