![]() ![]() Before the massive curtains could be installed, a small army of climbers and other workers installed scaffolding and brackets around the top of the Arc de Triomphe and parts of its pillars, to protect sculptures and decorative carvings. ![]() The project was not as simple as simply closing a large set of drapes. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009 before Christo died in 2020, he asked that the Arc de Triomphe project be completed posthumously. The couple had dreamed of the project for decades.Ĭhristo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon met in Paris in 1958, starting a relationship that led to marriage and one of the world's most famous artistic collaborations. Workers unravel a silvery blue fabric during the wrapping of the L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris, in a posthumous installation by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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