Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation Donates Art to Two Paris Museums
The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, the organization that stewards the legacy of the iconic artist duo who wrapped large structures in fabric, has donated 14 artworks to two museums in Paris. The artists’ ties to the city are well documented. In 2021, a year after Christo’s death at 84, the artists’ 1962 plan to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 square meters of metallic blue polypropylene fabric and red rope was finally realized after almost 60 years. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who died 2009, also wrapped the Pont-Neuf, a centuries old bridge that crosses the Seine, along with surrounding sidewalks and embankments, in orange-yellow fabric in 1985. (The French street artist JR plans to re-wrap the Pont Neuf this summer in homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude.) Related Articles The Musée Carnavalet, dedicated to the history of the city of Paris, will receive a collage related to an unrealized project in which Christo and Jeanne-Claude proposed wrapping several buildings near the Place de la Concorde, among them the Église de la Madeleine and the Hôtel de la …
