Title: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Trees (1997), 1998
Artist: Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Year: 1998
Medium Type: Poster on paper
Frame: Unframed

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Christo
American-Bulgarian, 1935–2020

Christo became famous for his monumental collaborations with his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude. The duo's projects, such as The Gates (1979–2005) in New York's Central Park and Wrapped Reichstag (1972–95) in Berlin, made spectacular interventions in public spaces. After Jeanne-Claude's passing in 2009, Christo worked to complete the couple's unrealized projects such as The London Mastaba, a 600-ton sculpture made from 7,000 painted oil barrels that floated on the city's Serpentine Lake in 2018. In gallery spaces—including at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—Christo and Jeanne-Claude presented schematic drawings and models, which exhibited the imagination and technical mastery that undergirded their massive installations. At auction, these pieces have sold for six figures.
Jeanne-Claude
French, 1935–2009

Jeanne-Claude (b. 1935, Casablanca, Morocco; d. 2009, New York) was a French artist known for large-scale environmental installations. In collaboration with Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, the artist wrapped urban architecture and natural landscapes in draped fabric to transform familiar environments into temporary spectacles. The duo financed every project exclusively through the sale of original preparatory artworks, refusing public grants and corporate sponsorship. Major works include Running Fence (1976), a 24-mile nylon barrier along the California coast, and The Gates (1979–2005), 7,503 saffron-colored fabric panels installed in Central Park, New York. The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., holds more than 350 items from their archive.

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