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CHRISTO Wrapped Reichstag (Project for Berlin) Diptych.
Two-part collage with fabric, thread, color pencils, color crayons, charcoal and maps on paper, 1980. Larger part is 560x710 mm; 22x28 inches; samller part is 275x710 mm; 10 3/4x28 inches. Signed, titled and dated in black crayon, upper and lower margin of the smaller part; annotated with construction notes and squared for scale in black crayon on the larger part.
Ex-collection Burt Chernow, author of Jeanna-Claude and Christo's biography, XTO+J-C. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Cologne, 2000. Chernow also worked with Jeanne-Claude and Christo in Berlin on the Wrapped Reichstag project.
Following three tumultuous decades of planning and construction, Jeanne-Claude and Christo's Wrapped Reichstag was finally revealed on June 24, 1995. The project's enormous scale required 90 professional climbers and 120 installation workers, as well as over a million square feet of polypropylene fabric, including 70 tailor-made panels held taut with 9.7 miles of polypropylene rope. Entirely funded by the artists themselves, the Reichstag stood wrapped for two weeks. According to the New York Times, there could not have been a better moment for this project, considering the rich, painful history of the edifice and that, only 5 years prior, Berlin had been named Germany's capital.
