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Christo - Christo 1935 Gabrovo - 2020 New York City - The Gates - Offset/Paper. 35 x 46 cm, 50 x 60.3 cm, 51 x 61 cm (dimensions with frame). Signed lower right: Christo. Inscribed lower center: CHRISTO: THE GATES, PROJECT FOR CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY, XXVI, Collage. Photograph: Wolfgang Volz © CHRISTO 2004; published and distributed by Kunstverlag Schumacher GmbH, Düsseldorf and NYGS. Christo and Jeanne-Claude do not derive any income from the sales. Proceeds from the sales benefit Nurture New York's Nature. Order No. 18379. Framed under glass. Christo is considered the most famous 'packaging artist'. He works with monuments, buildings, wraps coastlines and entire islands. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Sofia from 1953-56. In 1957, the first packages and ”Wrapped Objects” were created in Paris. Since 1961, Christo has been realizing projects together with the artist Jeanne-Claude, his later wife. Probably the most famous project in Germany is the wrapping of the Reichstag, which took place from June 23 - July 8, 1995. Here Christo and Jeanne-Claude used 100,000 sqm of fabric, 15,600 m of rope and 200 tons of steel. In 2001, a retrospective followed in the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin. They last received worldwide attention in 2005 with the project ”The Gates” in Central Park, New York. They are currently working on the wrapping of the Arkansas River, Colorado, USA.