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Christo Javacheff
"Wrapped Statues, Aegina Temple" Large screen print with collage.

1988

$5,200
£3,993.38
€4,576.36
CA$7,320.32
A$8,200.37
CHF 4,273.14
MX$100,027.61
NOK 54,301.82
SEK 51,202.75
DKK 34,156.70

About the Item

This artwork titled "Wrapped Statues, Aegina Temple, Project for the Munich Glyptotek" from the "Official Arts Portfolio of the XXIV Olympic" 1988, is an original screen print with collage on Arches cover wove paper by renown Bulgarian/American artist Christo Javacheff, 1935-2020. It is hand signed and numbered CLXXXIII/CCC in pencil by the artist. Published by Lloyd Shin Fine Arts INC, Chicago, printed by Landfall Press, Chicago. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Schellmann and Benecke, plate #135. The size is 35.10 x 27 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (Bulgarian: Христо Владимиров Явашев) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of three sons to Tzveta Dimitrova and Vladimir Javacheff, who worked at a textile manufacturer. Christo was shy and had a predilection for art. He received private art instruction at a young age through the support of his parents, who invited visiting artists to their house. Christo was particularly affected by events from World War II and his country's fluid borders. During evacuations, he and his brothers stayed with a family in the rural hills outside town, where Christo connected with nature and handicraft. Young Christo While Bulgaria was under repressive totalitarian rule, and Western art was suppressed, Christo pursued realistic painting through the mid-1950s. He was admitted into the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1953, but found the school dull and stifling. Instead, he found inspiration in Skira art books, and visiting Russian professors who had been active in Russian modernism and the Soviet avant-garde. On the weekends, academy students were sent to paint propaganda and Christo unhappily participated. He found work as a location scout for the state cinema and served three tours of duty during summer breaks. In 1956, he used an academy connection to receive permission to visit family in Prague, where the theater of Emil František Burian reinvigorated him. Amid fears of further Russian suppression in Hungary, Christo decided to flee to Vienna as a railcar stowaway. He had little money after paying the bribe, did not speak the language, had deserted during his Bulgarian military service, and feared being trapped in a refugee camp. In Vienna, he stayed with a family friend (who had not expected him), studied at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy, and surrendered his passport to seek political asylum as a stateless person. There, he supported himself with commissions and briefly visited Italy with the academy, whose program he was equally unhappy with. At the behest of a friend relocated from Sofia, he saved up to visit Geneva in late 1957. In violation of his visa, he continued to pursue commissions (whose works he would sign with his family name, reserving his given name for more serious work) and was transformed after visiting the Kunstmuseum Basel and Kunsthaus Zürich. In January 1958, he first began to wrap items, starting with a paint can. In February 1958, Christo left for Paris, having received a visa with the assistance of a Sofia academy connection. In 1973, after 17 stateless years, Christo became a United States citizen. He died at his home in New York City on May 31, 2020, at 84. The work of Christo Javacheff is held in major private, corporate collections and museums worldwide.
  • Creator:
    Christo Javacheff (1935 - 2020, Bulgarian)
  • Creation Year:
    1988
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 35.1 in (89.16 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: chri/wra/sta/011stDibs: LU666314073632

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