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

Christo offset lithograph (*)

About the project “Surrounded Islands,” carried out in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Printed on Fine Art glossy card stock (170 g).

***. LAST REMAINING COPIES ***

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 a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be sent with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation 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 combine their creative talents. Their first joint exhibition was organized in 1961. In the same year they created packaging in the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they created in Paris, on rue Visconti, a gigantic assembly stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marked the starting point of thousands of proposals, including numerous realizations, poetic packaging projects and gigantic works that seek to express the ephemeral as art.

The couple moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They dominated space, wrapping, cutting, coloring monuments and landscapes, giving the urban, rural, or maritime landscapes of their choice 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, 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 gates draped with saffron-colored fabrics. Their next project is titled “Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.

Christo passed away at eighty-four on May 31, 2020.