Works of Christo

Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Yavachev known as Christo walks on his installation 'The Floating Piers' on the Lake Iseo, northern Italy, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Some 200,000 floating cubes create a 3-kilometers runway to be clad in bright yellow fabric and connecting the town of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on the Iseo Lake for a 16-day outdoor installation opening on June 18 through July 3. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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An aerial view of the in progress installation 'The Floating Piers' by Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Yavachev known as Christo, on the Lake Iseo, northern Italy, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Some 200,000 floating cubes create a 3-kilometers runway to be clad in bright yellow fabric and connecting the town of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on the Iseo Lake for a 16-day outdoor installation opening on June 18 through July 3. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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Some of Christo's yellow umbrellas fill a field near Fort Tejon, Calif., morning of Oct. 9, 1991 as traffic passes by on Interstate 5. The unfurling of the Southern California umbrellas followed by less than a day, the opening of 1,340 blue umbrellas scattered along two lush valleys north of Tokyo, Japan.

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Christo's blue umbrellas stand open in the rain-swollen Sato River, north of Tokyo, on the morning of Oct. 9, 1991. After a one-day delay due to heavy rain, hundreds of workers opened 1,340 umbrellas across the farming valley for the three week project.

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Hundreds of Christo's blue umbrellas bloom in the Sato River valley, 120 kilometers north of Tokyo, Oct. 9, 1991. After a one-day delay due to heavy downpour, Christo went ahead with his project with the help of local people, opening up 1, 340 umbrellas along country roads and across rice fields.

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"Wrapped Trees," a project of artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, is seen in the park of the Foundation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 19, 1998.

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Workers begin to unwrap the first of artist Christo's 178 wrapped trees in the Berower Park in Riehen, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 14, 1998. The unwrapping will last one week. More than 300,000 spectators visited Christo's tree-art-project in the Basel suburb.

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Artists Christo and his partner Jean-Claude pose with the Rosenthal Award 2000 trophy. The couple received the award in Frankfurt/Main, Saturday, Feb.19, 2000, for their lifework in design.

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The artists Christo, left, and Jeanne-Claude, right, pass their "Wrapped Oil Barrels" created 1958-1959 as they tour their exhibition at Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001. The exhibition shows the early works of the couple as well as their long-time projects.

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A visitor is dwarfed by Christo's new installation "The Wall" during a press preview at the Gasometer Arts Center in Oberhausen, Germany, Thursday, April 29, 1999. "The Wall" is made from 13 thousand painted empty oil barrels, piled up to a height of 85 feet (26 meters) and a length of 223 feet (68 meters). The installation is part of an exhibition that includes a documentation of his "Umbrellas" and "Wrapped Reichstag" projects.

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Bulgarian-born US-artist Christo will open his newest art piece titled "The Floating Piers" on Lake Iseo in northern-Italy. — AP

Bulgarian-born US-artist Christo will open his newest art piece titled "The Floating Piers" June 18, 2016 on Lake Iseo in northern-Italy.

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Artists Christo, left, and Jeanne-Claude, right, pose in front of their work of art titled "The Umbrellas" (Japan/US, 1984-1991) as they visit their exhibition "Swiss Projects 1968-1998" at the Centre PasquArt in Biel, Switzerland, Friday, Aug. 27, 2004.

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Artists Christo, left, and Jeanne-Claude discuss their Central Park art project "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005" as they walk in New York's Central Park, Jan. 7, 2005.

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Artists Christo, left, and Jeanne-Claude, walk between foundations for their art project "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005" as they walk in New York's Central Park, Jan. 7, 2005.

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The midtown Manhattan skyline is seen, background, as a pedestrian walks past a section of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates," at Central Park, in New York City, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. Several hundred extra officers will team with park enforcement and private security to protect the installation.

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The midtown Manhattan skyline is seen, background, as pedestrians pass beneath a section of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates," at Central Park, in New York City, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. Several hundred extra officers will team with park enforcement and private security to protect the installation.

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Frames painted orange for "The Gates" art project greet visitors in Central Park, New York, Feb. 11, 2005. some 7,500 frames will serve as gates that make up Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary work of art "The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005."

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Christo and Jean-Claude's 'The Gates' art installation in New York's Central Park, as seen on the opening day, Feb. 12, 2005, in New York's Central Park. With flowing fabric the color of a sunrise, the massive public art installation was unfurled Saturday for the start of a 16-day stay transforming miles of footpaths in Central Park.

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Pedestrians walk beneath Christo and Jean-Claude's "The Gates," Feb. 12, 2005, in New York's Central Park.

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Sylvia and Jonathan Ezekial approach frames for "The Gates" art project, as they walk through an underpass in Central Park, New York, Feb. 11, 2005.

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Artists Christo, left, and Jeanne-Claude, participate in opening "The Gates" project in New York's Central Park, Feb. 12, 2005.

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Anne Derussy, of Munich, Germany, removes her purse from a branch where she had hung it while being photographed by a companion in front of Christo's "The Gates" Feb. 12, 2005, in New York's Central Park. Derussy, a native of France now living in Germany, came to New York expressly to see "The Gates, " a series of 7,500 16-foot-high orange gates with saffron fabric suspended from them along 23 miles of Central Park's footpaths.