Serigraph in colors on brown cardboard
Stuttgart, 1973
Christo (b. 1935) – Bulgarian-American landscape artist
Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) – Moroccan-French artist
Signed with pencil lower right ‘Christo’
Edition of 200
Printer: Hans-Peter Haas, Stuttgart
Publisher: Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
Catalogue raisonné: Schellmann/Benecke 62
Sheet size: 55.6 x 76.2 cm
Very good condition
Christo and Jeanne-Claude gained worldwide fame with their spectacular environments; serigraphs by the artist couple fetch up to €11,500 at international auctions

In 1968, Christo created the project ‘Packed Hay’ as part of his exhibition at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. Christo chose a huge hay stack of 12 x 20 x 8 feet and wrapped it in different packing materials. The present serigraph is a beautiful copy of an edition of 200 and was published by the well-known Kestner-Gesellschaft in 1973.



The serigraph is signed with pencil lower right ‘Christo‘. It is titled in the print along the lower edge ‘PACKET HAY PROJECT FOR THE INSTITUT OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA’. It is in very good condition and the sheet-sized image measures 55.6 x 76.2 cm.



Christo (b. 1935) und Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)

Christo (born 1935) grew up as the son of an industrial family in Bulgaria. Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) is the daughter of a French military family and she was educated in France and Switzerland. Jeanne-Claude died on 18.11.2009 in New York City. Christo studied from 1953 to 1956 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. In 1957, he studied for one semester at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. Since 1958, he lived in Paris where he and Jeanne-Claude met. From very early on in his artistic activity, Christo began wrapping objects. He followed the idea that the act of wrapping makes visible the banality and the excess of most objects that exist in our world. Jeanne-Claude always supported him in the realization by negotiating with mayors, interest groups, environmental activists and residents to receive approval for the projects. (cbo)

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