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

Offset lithography by Christo (*)
On the project “Surrounded Islands”, executed in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Printed on Fine Art glossy poster board (170g).

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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, therefore offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. Shipping will be tracked with a tracking number.

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 combine their talents as creators. The first exhibition of both artists was organized in 1961. In the same year they created package-wraps at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they carried out in Paris, rue Visconti, a gigantic assemblage stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals including numerous realizations, poetic and monumental packaging projects that aim to express the ephemerality as artistic expression.
The couple settled in New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They commandeer space, wrap, cut, color, monuments and landscapes, giving 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 defend their projects themselves, producing them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and serigraphs), collages, maquettes and films whose sale funds the project itself. “The Gates,” their latest realization, was presented in New York at the beginning of 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gate structures 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.