The River, Project

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Medium

collage with charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, wax crayon, conté crayon, enamel paint, and ballpoint pen on paperboard

Dimensions

Overall: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.) framed: 28.6 x 36.3 x 3.3 cm (11 1/4 x 14 5/16 x 1 5/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Accession Number

2001.9.2

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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