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

Christo offset lithograph (*)

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

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Specifications:

- Sheet 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, 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 sent with tracking.

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 from 1952 to 1956. Christo settled in Paris in 1958 and met Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, born the same year as him. They married and decided to unite their talents as creators. The first exhibition of the two 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 created in Paris, on Visconti Street, a gigantic assemblage stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals among which numerous realizations, poetic and gigantic packaging projects that seek to express the ephemeral as artistic expression.

The couple moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They take possession of space, wrap, cut, color, monuments and landscapes, giving 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, producing them with their own means. 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 latest realization, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gates wrapped in saffron-colored fabric. 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.