Otterlo Mastaba, Project for the Rijksmuseum, Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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Medium

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 ...

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