Offset print in colors on light cardboard
Christo (born 1935) – Bulgarian artist
Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) – Moroccan-French artist
Signed 'Christo' in pencil
Published by Carl Flach / Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf 1991
Printed by Domberger (with blindstamp)
Image dimensions: 38.4 x 43 cm; sheet dimensions: 49 x 51 cm
Provenance: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Blue umbrellas: Drafts for the Japanese side

The present color offset print shows two drafts for the art project ‘The Umbrellas’ by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The concept was to set up several thousand umbrellas in an open landscape in Japan and in the USA at the same time. The different places were indicated by color. Accordingly, blue umbrellas were only used in Japan, whereas yellow umbrellas were exclusively spread in the USA.

Condition:
The sheet is in good condition with scattered tiny damages to the corners and edges and two pale marks are at the upper and at the lower edge.

Christo (b. 1935) & Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)
Christo, born as Christo Javacheff, grew up as the son of an industrialist family in Bulgaria. He 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 met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon. 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 of his projects by negotiating with mayors, interest groups, environmental activists and residents to receive approval for the projects. (msc)

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