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Yves KleinPrinted on silk in 1993 under the supervision of Yves Klein - Anthropométries1993
1993
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Printed on silk in 1993 under the supervision of the Yves Klein Archives, Abstraction N. 37 revives the artist’s most radical and visceral innovation: the Anthropométries—paintings made not with a brush, but with the living body.
What you see here is not merely an image, but a performance frozen in time. The figures, applied directly through imprints of female bodies coated in paint, form a kind of human Rorschach—part ballet, part ritual, part provocation. The composition hovers between figuration and abstraction, embodying Klein’s obsession with pure gesture and the immaterial energy of the body.
The deep ultramarine International Klein Blue (IKB)—a color Klein famously patented—is paired here with earthy magentas and raw expressive movement. The figures, both assertive and ghostly, evoke a cosmic choreography, a celebration of life, sensuality, and transcendence. Silk, a medium both delicate and luminous, amplifies the sense of ephemeral presence, echoing Klein’s vision of art as a spiritual experience.
Klein described his Anthropometries as “living brushes”—a collaboration between body and void, matter and idea. This work—issued decades after his passing—honors that concept, channeling the kinetic force of his original performances into a timeless object.
Editioned and authorized, Abstraction N. 37 is not a reproduction—it is a continuation, a reverberation of Klein’s belief that the human form, when freed from narrative, becomes a site of the infinite.
This silk is not just a piece of art. It is a manifesto, an imprint of Klein’s legacy, and a physical echo of his quest for the immaterial beyond materiality.
Surrealism - Animals
Silk
Edited by Flammarion
- Creator:Yves Klein (1928 - 1962, French)
- Creation Year:1993
- Dimensions:Height: 39.38 in (100 cm)Width: 39.38 in (100 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:Good condition, creases.
- Gallery Location:PARIS, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1792216528902
Yves Klein
French artist Yves Klein is best known for his trademark ultramarine pigment, which he patented as International Klein Blue in 1961. “Blue … is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not,” he said.
“All colors arouse specific ideas, while blue suggests at most the sea and the sky; and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
Starting in the mid-1950s, Klein made retinal blue monochrome paintings (which would prove cornerstones of Minimalism) and the pigment would also feature prominently in his Anthropometry paintings, for which Klein smeared nude women with blue pigment and used them as human brushes on canvas, sometimes in elaborate public performances. Klein's work anticipated Conceptual art, performance art and environmental art, as in his selling of portions of empty space to collectors. For The Void (1958), he presented an empty gallery as an artwork, wearing a white tie and tails to show visitors around the blank walls.
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