Biography

Christo (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff) and Jeanne-Claude (Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon) were an artist couple. After Jeanne-Claude’s death in 2009, Christo continued to be artistically active until his death in 2020.

Christo became known after joining the group “Nouveau Réalisme” (‘New Realism’) founded by Pierre Restany and Yves Klein in Paris in 1960, although he was never an official member of the group. As with most of the protagonists of the sociologically inspired Nouveau Réalisme concept of art, his art originally developed from assemblage (Object Art). Later, Christo, together with his wife Jeanne-Claude, realized disguising actions on buildings and large-scale projects in landscape spaces, industrial objects or well-known buildings. He is described as the artist, she as the organizer. In 1995 both denied this separation. In Germany, the artist couple became particularly popular with the wrapping of the Berlin Reichstag building in 1995.

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ARTWORKS Christo & Jeanne-Claude

Wrapped Mur de Réformateurs (Project for Geneva)
Wrapped Mur de Réformateurs (Project for Geneva), 1977
Collage (colour lithography, fabric, string, paint, photography and road map) mounted on Rives handmade paper on cardboard
71 x 55.5 cm
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Wrapped Mur de Réformateurs (Project for Geneva)

1977

Collage (colour lithography, fabric, string, paint, photography and road map) mounted on Rives handmade paper on cardboard

71 x 55.5 cm

signed

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Publisher

Graphic International, Stuttgart Print 100 copies + PP (Printers Proof) + AP (Artists Proof). With the dry stamp of the printer Matthieu AG, Zurich.

Literature

Catalogue raisonné, Schellman/Benecke, WVZ. no. 94Wvz. Schellman/Benecke

Provenance

Private collection Switzerland Private collection Wuppertal

The reformation monument “Mur des Réformateurs” is located in front of the old city wall of Geneva in the Parc des Bastions. Situated in a park just a stone’s throw from the Place de Neuve, it contains the most important figures of the Reformation in the form of larger-than-life statues and reliefs. This project is one of the three unrealized projects Christo has planned for Geneva. He spent the winter of 1957/58 in Geneva and planned the veiling of the monument from 1974.

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The Ponte Sant’Angelo, Wrapped, 1989
lithography with collage elements, overpainting and string on paper
70 x 55 cm
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
The Ponte Sant’Angelo, Wrapped

1989

lithography with collage elements, overpainting and string on paper

70 x 55 cm

signed and dated lower left

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Project for Avenue des Champs Elysées and Rond Point des Champs Elysée, Paris
Project for Avenue des Champs Elysées and Rond Point des Champs Elysée, Paris, 1987
lithography with collage elements, overpainting and string on paper
71 x 56 cm
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Project for Avenue des Champs Elysées and Rond Point des Champs Elysée, Paris

1987

lithography with collage elements, overpainting and string on paper

71 x 56 cm

signed and dated lower left

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