Craters, 1959

ArtistChristo, Gabrovo 1935–2020 New York

Glue and resin, enamel paint and sand on slashed canvas, mounted on Masonite

Status

on display, room 028

About the workDark craters pervade the surface of the image. This landscape of dry earth tones looks like scorched ground. Using thick layers of sand and enamel paint, the artist has created a relief-like composition consisting of several strata. This is an early work by the Bulgarian-born Christo from his “Cratère” series of 1959. He had moved to Paris a year earlier to pursue his artistic career. Christo’s later objects and buildings wrapped in fabric and rope made him and his wife Jeanne-Claude famous around the world.

AccessionAcquisition 2022

Provenance23.11.2022 angekauft vom Estate of Christo V. Javacheff

Inventory number0.2022.23

Post-War Modernism

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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