Christo & Jeanne-Claude (1935-2020) - The Umbrellas Japan-USA 1991

Farboffset-Lithography by Christo Wladimirow Jawaschew & Jeanne-Claude (*)

This is a simultaneous art project in Ibaraki, Japan and in Kern County, California

"The Umbrellas" Japan - USA

Description:

Sheet size: 49.0 x 51.0 cm
Image size: 37.5 x 42.0 cm
Print medium: light board/cardboard
Copyright: licensed Domberger press
Dry stamp: Lithoseri by Domberger
Publisher: Carl Flach / Achenbach Art Edition Düsseldorf 1991
Condition: Excellent

The work comes from a professional portfolio storage and is therefore in absolutely mint condition. It has obviously neither been exhibited nor framed.

Shipping is carried out in a very elaborate, careful and professional packaging with maximum protection against any possible damage. In addition, a transport insurance against damage and loss provides extra safety without the buyer incurring any costs.

(*) Christo Wladimirow Jawaschew was born on June 13, 1935, in Babrowo (Bulgaria). From 1952 to 1956, he studied fine arts in Sofia. Christo settled in Paris in 1958 and met Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, who was born in the same year as he. They married and decided to combine their talents as creators. Their first joint exhibition took place in 1961. In the same year, they designed wrappings at the Cologne harbor. In the following year, they organized a massive gathering in Visconti Street in Paris as a protest against the Berlin Wall, where barrels of oil and gasoline were stacked. This period is the starting point for thousands of proposals, including numerous creations, poetic and gigantic wrapping projects that seek to manifest transience as artistic expression.
They settled in New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They take space, wrap, cut, and color monuments and landscapes, giving a new sculptural dimension to urban, rural or maritime landscapes of their choosing (Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Pont Neuf in Paris, Reichstag in Berlin…),

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for defending their projects themselves and realizing them with their own means. For each of them, they prepare drawings, graphic works (lithographs and screen prints), collages, models and films, the sale of which funds the project itself. “The Gates,” his latest film, was shown in early 2005 in New York. It is a 37-kilometer-long stretch through Central Park, dotted with 7,500 gates draped in saffron-colored fabrics. His next film bears the title “Above the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.

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