(Gabrowo 1935–2020 New York City)

Wrapped Trees (project for Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen). 1998.

Pencil, wax crayon, email and photography by Wolfgang Volz.

Signed and dated lower left: Christo 1998, also titled at the bottom: Wrapped Trees (project for Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen). Inscribed on the reverse: © CHRISTO 1998.

21.5 x 28 cm (im original frame).

With the confirmation of authenticity by the artist from 2007. The work is recorded in the artist's archive.

Provenance:
- Artist's studio.
- Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner, since then corporate collection Switzerland.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude had the idea of the "Wrapped Trees" as early as the 1960s. Their projects for Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri and the Champs-Elysées, Paris, were not approved. It was not until 1997/1998 that they were able to realise this concept in the park of the Fondation Beyeler and the neighbouring Berower Park in Riehen, Basel.

On 13 November 1998 around 33 workers began to wrap 178 trees. A total of 55 000 square meters of fabric and 23 km of rope were used. On 22 November all the trees had been wrapped; on 14 December everything was dismantled and the material used was as always recycled. "The branches of the Wrapped Trees pushed the translucent fabric outward and created dynamic volumes of light and shadow and moving in the wind with new forms and surfaces shaped by the ropes on the fabric". (quote from: www.christojeanneclaude.net)