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Christo

[Bulgarian-born American Environmental Artist, born in 1935]

• Also known as:  Christo Javacheff
• Relationships: Husband and collaborator of Jeanne-Claude.
• Browse all:  Bulgarian artists / American artists  /  environmental artists
 


 
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Original works by Christo available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Home Page:
The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Web site authorized by the artists

 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Store Front/ Project for the Landfall Press, ca.1978

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Green Storefront, 1964
Running Fence, Project For Sonoma And Marin Counties, 1975

Christo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
From the Roof: Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates in Central Park

Christo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates, Central Park, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Christo at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
32 works by Christo

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Running Fence, Project for Sonoma County and Marin County, State of California, drawing

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Packed Coast, project for Australia, near Sydney, 1969

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, Australia, 1969

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Running Fence, graphite, pastel, charcoal, fabric collage, 1976

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Brite Green Store Front Project
Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin
Wrapped Chair
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Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel   NEW!

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Indiana State University Art Collection   NEW!

Jacobs Gallery at Georgetown College, Kentucky
Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Florida)

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Wrapped Motorcycle/Sidecar, Project for Harley-Davidson 1933 VL Model, 1997

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Musée d'Art Contemporain - MAC, Marseilles, France (in French)   NEW!  
Empaquetage

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Orange Store Front

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Store Front, 1965-66

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Packed coast. Little Bay, Australia

S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Christo at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Packed Armchair, 1964-65

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas   NEW!
Wrapped Floors / Project for the Hans Lange Museum, 1983

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Commercial Galleries:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Wrapped Reichstag, 1994

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

California State University WorldImages Database

California State University WorldImages Database

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Flickr Photo Sharing
Numerous photographs, most notably from The Gates in New York's Central Park

PBase Photo Sharing
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Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1999

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Pont Neuf Wrappped - Paris
Wrapped Reichstag - Berlin


Webshots
Some installation photographs, mixed in with many unrelated photos

 
Other Web Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
5 photos of Christo & Jeanne-Claude, with Mayor Michael Bloomburg, at the opening of The Gates

Time Magazine Cover Archive
Planet Earth

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Christo
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Deutsche Bank Artmag
Christo: The Gates

Frieze Magazine
"Wrap it Up -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Reichstag Project "

Journal of Contemporary Art Online
Interview with the artist

Salon Magazine
Profile of the artist's career

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Saffron Succotash! Those Absurd Gates A Blight on Art, City

The Wall Street Journal
"It's a Wrap: Mayor Bloomberg lets Christo loose in Central Park"

 
Multimedia:
Google Video
Various videos showing different aspects of the New York City "Gates" project

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Lots more videos of "The Gates", apparently one of the world's best-documented art installations

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Christo and Jeanne-Claude speaking with a school group somewhere

  
 
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Christo: The Blue Umbrellas, 1991
The Blue Umbrellas, 1991


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Wrapped Reichstag Project for Berlin
Wrapped Reichstag Project for Berlin


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Surrounded Islands, 1982
Surrounded Islands, 1982


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Wrapped Trees XVI
Wrapped Trees XVI


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The Wall, Gasometer, Oberhausen
The Wall, Gasometer, Oberhausen


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Christo: Wrapped Vespa
Wrapped Vespa


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Christo: The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York
The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York

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