Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s 13 Most Amazing Artworks
Jeanne-Claude, one half along with her husband of the artist duo Jeanne-Claude and Christo, died on Wednesday in New York at age 74 of complications from a brain aneurysm. The couple’s most iconic work, incidentally, was probably their Gates installation in Central Park in 2005, but the two had been active since the 60s. (They were also working on two pieces at the time of Jeanne-Claude’s death, one in the United Arab Emirates and the other in Colorado, both of which will continue as planned.) To commemorate the duo’s incredible artistic ambitions and achievements we looked back at those pre-Gates years to compile this survey of Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s 13 Most Amazing Artworks.
“Iron Curtain” in Rue Visconti, Paris, 1962

“Wrapped Kunsthalle” in Bern, Switzerland, 1968

“5,600 Cubicmeter Package” at Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany, 1967

“Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, One Million Square Feet” in Sydney, Australia 1968-69

“Valley Curtain” in Rifle, Colorado, 1972

“Wrapped Roman Wall” at Via Veneto and Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy 1974

“Running Fence” in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California 1976

“Wrapped Walk Ways” in Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri 1978

“Surrounded Islands” in Miami, Florida 1983

“The Umbrellas” in Japan and USA, 1991

“Wrapped Reichstag” in Berlin 1995

“Wrapped Trees” at Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park in Riehen, Switzerland 1998

“The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels Gasometer” in Oberhausen, Germany 1999


This is fantastic. Thank you.