Otterlo Mastaba, Project for the Rijksmuseum, Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
1975
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oil pastel, graphite, wax crayon, red ball-point pen, and masking tape on poster board
Dimensions
sheet: 43.18 × 60.96 cm (17 × 24 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2717
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 ...