Package 1965
1965
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View on museum website →Medium
fabric, rope, and twine
Dimensions
overall: 27.3 × 7 × 3.7 cm, 2 lb. (10 3/4 × 2 3/4 × 1 7/16 in., 0.907 kg)
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
2001.2.8
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 ...