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        "accession_number": "1996.29",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Wrapped Chair, 1961. Christo (American, 1935\u20132020). Wood, fabric, lacquer paint, and ropes; overall: 90 x 42.5 x 44 cm (35 7/16 x 16 3/4 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, 1996.29. \u00a9 Christo",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Wrapped Chair",
        "creation_date": "1961",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1961,
        "creation_date_latest": 1961,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America"
        ],
        "technique": "wood, fabric, lacquer paint, and ropes",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Contemporary Art",
        "collection": "CONTEMP - Sculpture",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 90 x 42.5 x 44 cm (35 7/16 x 16 3/4 x 17 5/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.9,
                "height_inch": 35,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.4375,
                "width": 0.425,
                "width_inch": 16,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.75,
                "depth": 0.44,
                "depth_inch": 17,
                "depth_inch_fraction": 0.3125
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Christo",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 226391,
                    "title": "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works, 1958-69",
                    "description": "<i>Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works, 1958-69</i>. Martin Gropius Bau (September 8-December 30, 2001).",
                    "opening_date": "2001-09-08T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin; September 8-December 30, 2001.  \"Christo and Jeanne-Claude:  Early Works, 1958-69,\" exh. cat. no. 73, p. 59.",
                    "opening_date": "2001-09-08T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Jeanne-Claude Christo, New York.",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
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        ],
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        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "49.1996"
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        "did_you_know": "Christo and his partner, Jeanne-Claude, are known for their monumental wrapping of public buildings and sites using techniques seen in this chair.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "This sculpture is one of the earliest examples of Christo's signature style. His technique first incorporated the wrapping of everyday objects, including cans and bottles, stacks of magazines, furniture, and even an automobile, but led to the wrapping of public buildings and entire outdoor parks. This work uses a chair from the Paris apartment of Christo and his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude. The use of drapery and concealment adds a layer of mystery to the chair's otherwise straightforward meaning. Christo was among a group of artists in France in the late 1950s who rebelled against the previous generation's fascination with abstraction. These nouveaux r\u00e9alistes (new realists) chose to use real objects, rather than try to represent the items using other media. They preferred an art that was physical and tangible. Christo took this art one step further by \"cloaking\" reality, transforming and abstracting it.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79979235"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cArt Museum Acquires Three Works of Art by Christo<em> Christo &amp; Jeanne-Claude to Give Lecture at CMA</em>,\u201d April 24, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4038"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Donley, Gregory, M., \"Hide and Seek\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006",
                "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 14",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-05/page/14"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.29",
        "images": {},
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        "creditline": "Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro",
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        "gallery_donor_text": null,
        "athena_id": 159526,
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                "description": "Christo (American, 1935\u20132020)",
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                "birth_year": "1935",
                "death_year": "2020",
                "use_in_caption": true,
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                "weight": 1
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        ],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1996-06-03T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1961,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1961",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:23:12.789000"
    }
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