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Peintures Chez Iris Clert 1957 certified, stamped by Yves Klein Archives 105/200

2015

$7,000
£5,307.76
€6,129.02
CA$9,821.43
A$10,942.53
CHF 5,771.13
MX$132,660.49
NOK 73,417.05
SEK 68,392.63
DKK 45,778.11

About the Item

"...Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not.... All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract..." - Yves Klein Yves Klein (after) Yves Le Monochrome Peintures Chez Iris Clert, 1957 (Certified by Yves Klein Archives), 2015 Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper with Deckled Edges and Yves Klein Archives blind stamp 21 1/2 × 15 inches Hand numbered 105/200, with the Yves Klein Archives official embossed blindstamp/certification on the front Unframed, with deckled edges, and in excellent condition This beautiful limited edition Yves Klein work is an authorized lithograph based on the original 1957 painting. The print is hand numbered from the limited edition of 200, is in the IKB (International Klein Blue) color, and bears the Yves Klein Archives embossed blindstamp and certification. From Yves Klein Archives, Paris France: Yves Klein, born On April 28 1928 in Nice, had as a first vocation to be a judoka. It was only back in Paris, in 1954, that he dedicated himself fully to art, setting out on his ‘adventure into monochrome’. Animated by a quest to ‘liberate colour from the prison that is the line’, Yves Klein directed his attention to the monochrome which, to him, was the only form of painting that allowed to ‘make visible the absolute’. By choosing to express feeling rather than figurative form, Yves Klein moved beyond ideas of artistic representation, conceiving the work of art instead as a trace of communication between the artist and the world; invisible truth made visible. His works, he said, were to be ‘the ashes of his art’, traces of that which the eye could not see. Yves Klein’s practice revealed of new way of conceptualising the role of the artist, conceiving his whole life as an artwork. ‘Art is everywhere that the artist goes’, he once declared. According to him, beauty existed everywhere, but in a state of invisibility. His task was to to capture beauty wherever it might be found, in matter as in air. The artist used blue as the vehicle for his quest to capture immateriality and the infinite. His celebrated bluer-than-blue hue, soon to be named ‘IKB’ (International Klein Blue), radiates colourful waves, engaging not only the eyes of the viewer, but in fact allowing us see with our souls, to read with our imaginations. From monochromes, to the void, to his ‘technique of living brushes’ or ‘Anthropometry’; by way of his deployment of nature’s elements in order to manifest their creative life-force; and his use of gold as a portal to the absolute; Yves Klein developed a ground-breaking practice that broke down boundaries between conceptual art, sculpture, painting, and performance. Just before dying, Yves Klein told a friend, "I am going to go into the biggest studio in the world, and I will only do immaterial works." More about Yves Klein: Yves Klein 1928-1962 French artist chiefly noted for his blue monochrome paintings and for his audacious experiments with new techniques and new attitudes to art. Born in Nice; both his parents were painters. Began to paint in the late 1940s and formulated his first monochrome theories. Lived in Japan 1952-3. Became expert at judo, which he later taught in Spain and in Paris, where he lived from 1955. First public one-man exhibition at the Galerie des Solitaires, Paris, 1955. Early monochrome pictures in orange, yellow, pink, red and green, but from 1957 worked mainly in blue; also made from 1960 a number of monogolds, with gold leaf. Murals for the opera house at Gelsenkirchen 1957-9. Began in 1957 to experiment with fire paintings and 'immaterial zones of sensibility', and in 1958 with 'Anthropométries' made by a nude model pressing herself against the canvas under his direction. Member of the group Nouveaux Réalistes with Arman, Raysse, Spoerri, Tinguely, Pierre Restany and others 1960. Died in Paris of a heart attack, at the age of 34. -Courtesy of Tate Gallery
  • Creation Year:
    2015
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)
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  • After:
    Yves Klein (1928 - 1962, French)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745215991572

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