Lot 668
668
Yves Klein (1928-1962)
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Yves Klein (1928-1962)

SE219

Details
Yves Klein (1928-1962)
SE219
pigment, sponge and synthetic resin on a stone base
15 3/8in. (39cm.) high
Executed circa 1959
Provenance
Paolo Valors, Paris.
Exhibited
Basel, Museum Jean Tinguely, Jean Tinguely's Favorites: Yves Klein, December 1999-September 2000 (illustrated p. 69).
Nice, Musée d'Art Contemporain, La Vie, la vie elle-même qui est l'art absolu, April-September 2000 (illustrated p. 141). This exhibition travelled to Prato, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, September 2000-January 2001.
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Lot Essay

"Thanks to the sponges - living, savage material - I was able to make portraits of the readers of my monochromes who, after having seen, after having travelled in the blue of my paintings, come back totally impregnated in sensibility like sponges" (Y. Klein, in Exh. cat., Galerie Colette Allendy, 1957, unpublished Klein Archive).


Sold with a certificate from R. Klein Moquay dated March 4, 1999, this work is recorded in the Yves Klein Archives under no. SE219.

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