Christo

Christo rose to international prominence through his monumental collaborations with his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude. Together, they created some of the most ambitious site-specific artworks of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Projects such as The Gates (1979–2005) in New York’s Central Park and Wrapped Reichstag (1972–95) in Berlin transformed familiar public spaces through large-scale, temporary installations that invited viewers to experience their surroundings in entirely new ways.After Jeanne-Claude’s death in 2009, Christo continued working to realize projects the pair had conceived together. Among these was The London Mastaba, a 600-ton floating sculpture composed of 7,000 painted oil barrels, installed on the Serpentine Lake in London’s Hyde Park in 2018.Beyond their outdoor works, Christo and Jeanne-Claude also produced detailed preparatory drawings, collages, and scale models. Exhibited in museums such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these pieces reveal the imagination, engineering, and meticulous planning behind their vast installations. On the art market, such works have frequently achieved six-figure prices at auction.