# Jeanne-Claude (Christo's partner) is dead @

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**Created:** [July 17, 2016, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeanne-claude-christos-partner-is-dead/760113 "2016-07-17T10:38:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeanne-claude-christos-partner-is-dead/760113/1 "2016-07-17T10:38:59Z")

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[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jeanne-claude-artist-celebrated-with-her-husband-christo-for-the-pairs-large-scale-public-artworks-1826874.html"l](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/6614804/Jeanne-Claude.html%5B/URL)

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeanne-claude-christos-partner-is-dead/760113/2 "2016-07-17T10:44:11Z")

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Oh, sorry to hear. Loved the silly/sincere ambition of their work together. Why _not_ wrap that building or surround that island with pink fabric? When it works it is strangely uplifting in person.

I had only really heard of Christo for years. Only heard that she was his co-creator of the pieces over the past decade or so.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeanne-claude-christos-partner-is-dead/760113/3 "2016-07-17T10:48:24Z")

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I fixed the links to make them clickable:

> **[Jeanne-Claude](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/6614804/Jeanne-Claude.html)**
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> Jeanne-Claude, who died on November 18 aged 74, was a flame-haired artist and the co-creator, with her husband Christo, of monumental "wrapping" artworks such as the swathing of the Reichstag building in Berlin in silver fabric.

> **[Jeanne-Claude: Artist celebrated with her husband Christo for the](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jeanneclaude-artist-celebrated-with-her-husband-christo-for-the-pair-s-largescale-public-artworks-1826874.html)**
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> Jeanne-Claude was the flamboyant half of the symbiotic artistic partnership known as "Christo and Jeanne-Claude". The couple are widely recognised for their ephemeral projects together, over more than 50 years, involving the large-scale...

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeanne-claude-christos-partner-is-dead/760113/4 "2016-07-17T10:51:55Z")

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Please note the dates of the linked articles. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009.

As for Generalissimo Francisco Franco, I’m still waiting for an update.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeanne-claude-christos-partner-is-dead/760113/5 "2016-07-17T11:02:46Z")

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> [@Martian Bigfoot](#):
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> Please note the dates of the linked articles. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009.
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> As for Generalissimo Francisco Franco, I’m still waiting for an update.

:smack: argh.