Offset print in colors on glossy coated paper
Germany 2001
Christo (b. 1935) – Bulgarian-American landscape artist
Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) – Moroccan-French artist
Signed upper left in brown wax crayon ‘Christo’
Typographically titled, dated and inscribed with the copyright and publisher in the print on the left
Poster for the exhibition ‘Christo and Jeanne Claude. Early Works 1958-69’ in Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin 2001
Published by Kunstverlag Schumacher, Edition Fils, Düsseldorf
Image dimensions: 72 x 59.3 cm
Very good condition
Christo and Jeanne-Claude gained worldwide fame with their spectacular environments realized around the world; large format lithographs by the artist couple fetch up to €14,400 at international auctions

This was a poster for the exhibition ‘Early Works’ by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin in 2001. Works from the early period of the artist couple, from the years between 1958 and 1969, were on display. The poster is illustrated with the work ‘Purple Store Front’, from the year of creation 1964. The photograph was taken by Wolfgang Volz.

The offset print is signed upper left in brown wax crayon ‘Christo’ and on the left typographically titled, dated and inscribed with the copyright and publisher in the print. The sheet is in very good condition with occasional unobtrusive handling creases. The image measures 72.5 x 59.3 cm, the sheet 84.3 x 59.5 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. (fea)

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