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Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Poster ‘Wrapped Magazine’, 2001

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:240.00 EUR Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 EUR
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Poster ‘Wrapped Magazine’, 2001
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘Wrapped Objects’ explore the transformative process of an object being wrapped in fabric. This color photograph by Eeva-Inkeri from the year 2001 depicts such an object. ‘Wrapped Magazine’ from the year 1963 is a folded magazine, which is wrapped in red sleeve and rope. The original work is in the possession of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Collection in New York. The artist couple created a series of wrapped objects, rooms and buildings.



The work bears the complimentary signature lower left in brown crayon ‘Christo’. It is titled, dated, annotated, and bears the photo credit and the publisher on the lower margin in print. The print is in very good condition with minimal handling creases. The lower right corner is minimally bumped. The dimensions are 70 x 50 cm.



Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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 artstic 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 realisation by negotiating with mayors, interest groups, environmental activists and residents to receive approval for the projects. (tm)
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