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Christo

1966-1967

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Medium

wood, Plexiglas, cardboard, paint, enamel paint, wax crayon, charcoal, and electric light

Dimensions

overall: 51.8 x 72.4 x 152.6 cm (20 3/8 x 28 1/2 x 60 1/16 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

2001.2.4

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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