Yellow Store Front
1965
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View on museum website →Medium
wood, Plexiglas, fabric, brown paper, galvanized metal, pegboard, corrugated cardboard, and electric light
Dimensions
overall: 248.92 × 224.16 × 40.64 cm (98 × 88 1/4 × 16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jeanne-Claude Christo-Javacheff Trust
Accession Number
2023.79.1
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 ...