Artist, Jeanne-Claude, died at the age of 74, reported BBC News.The United States artist died of complications following a ruptured brain aneurysm. Claude is best known for her work in Berlin, where she installed temporary wrappings around the Reichstag. Claude and her husband, Christo Claude whom she met in 1958 at Paris, worked on the famous art works together. The couple's most well-known works include wrappings around the Roman wall in Italy, and fabrics around a series of islands off the coast of Florida. In 1991 the pair of artists positioned thousands of blue and yellow umbrellas across inland valleys of Japan and California. One of the most recent works were the installation of 23 miles of saffron drapes hung in New York City's Central Park.Claude had been living in New York for 45 years.Her unfinished works include the "Over the River Project," where the Arkansas River in Colorado will be covered by drapes across the whole, and "The Mastaba" in the United Arab Emirates, a pyramid structure made of 410,000 colored barrels.
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