Contemporary Discoveries
Contemporary Discoveries
Yves Klein
La Terre Bleue
Lot Closed
July 19, 04:43 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Yves Klein
1928 - 1962
La Terre Bleue
embossed with the star (on the base); numbered 262/300 (on a label affixed to the underside)
IKB pigment and synthetic resin on plaster cast
13¾ by 9 in.
34.9 by 22.9 cm.
Conceived in 1957 and cast in 1990 by Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, this work is number 262 from an edition of 300 plus 50 Hors Commerce.
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva
Sotheby's London, 23 October 2001, lot 467
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Catalogue Raisonné des et Éditions Sculptures, Knokke Le Zoute, 2000, no. RP 7, p.242, illustrated
“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not. They are pre-psychological expanses, red, for example, presupposing a site radiating heat. All colors 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