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The avant-garde artist Christo created some of the most spectacular large-scale public artworks of the 20th century.

Working with his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, he wrapped in fabric the Reichstag building in Berlin (1995) and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris (1985), built a 25-mile fabric fence across Northern California (1975), and strung a huge orange curtain across a Colorado valley (1972).

Christo Javacheff was born in Bulgaria and studied fine arts in Sofia and Vienna before moving to Paris in 1958.

There he met Jeanne-Claude, who became his muse and partner in exotic art.

They married in 1962, moved to New York in 1964 and began making the ever-larger “environmental” artworks for which Christo became famous: wrapped fountains, bridges, buildings, and other public spaces.

His fame blossomed with “The Gates,” which placed 7500 vinyl gates, with free-flowing orange nylon fabric panels, across 23 miles of Central Park walk