Pieces 1982 logo3/14/2024 ![]() ![]() When she was still alive, the married couple were always careful to travel in separate planes so that if one were to perish in a crash the other would be able to continue their work.įiercely determined to retain complete artistic freedom, the pair self-funded their installations by selling original artworks and insisting on paying their assistants union or above minimum wages. At the age of 21, Christo fled the Stalinist regime in his home country to Paris, where he met Jeanne-Claude in 1958 when he was commissioned to paint her mother's portrait.īy 1961 they were collaborating on art works, in a romantic and artistic union that lasted until Jeanne-Claude's death in 2009. ![]() Photo by Wolfgang Volz © 1982 ChristoĬhristo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day in 1935, Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria and Jeanne-Claude in Casablanca in Morocco. Christo and Jeanne-Claude looking for a possible site for The Mastaba in February 1982. ![]()
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