Table rose

Details

Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Table rose
This table is part of an edition begun in 1963 under the supervision of Rotraut Klein-Moquay based on a model by Yves Klein and is accompanied by a plaque signed R. Klein-Moquay’ and numbered ‘ND RE-US’ (on a label affixed to the underside)
pigment, Plexiglas, glass and stainless steel
14 ¼ x 39 5/8 x 49 ¼in. (36.8 x 100.3 x 125.1cm.)
Executed circa 1970

Provenance

Galerie Guy Pieters, Knokke-Heist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. All sold and unsold lots marked with a filled square in the catalogue that are not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the day of the sale, and all sold and unsold lots not cleared from Christie’s by 5:00 pm on the fifth Friday following the sale, will be removed to the warehouse of ‘Cadogan Tate’. Please note that there will be no charge to purchasers who collect their lots within two weeks of this sale.

Lot Essay

‘Yves chooses madder rose … Having thus acquired the third element, Yves Klein, can, from now on, present the cosmological trilogy of personal transmutation of colours: ultramarineblue IKB, gold, and pink… The transfer to monopink in the monochrome trilogy is revealing. Madder rose represents the Holy Spirit before the gold of the Father and the blue of the Son; gold for immateriality and blue for sensibility’ (P. Restany, Fire at the Heart of the Void, New York 2005, pp. 24-26).

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