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Air Package, Project for the Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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Medium

polyethylene, rope, twine, Plexiglas globe, wood, and paint

Dimensions

overall: 42 x 61 x 73.5 cm (16 9/16 x 24 x 28 15/16 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Department

CMC

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of a Private Collector in honor of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel

Accession Number

2001.2.3

About the Artist

Christo

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, emerged from a childhood marked by wartime upheaval and a bohemian family environment that nurtured his artistic inclinations. The second of three sons to a textile manufacturer father and a politically active mother who worked at Sofia's Academy of Fine Arts, Christo received private art lessons from a young age, with his ...

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