Yves Klein
Relief planetaire sans titre (RP 4)
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March 1, 09:28 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Yves Klein
1928 - 1962
Relief planetaire sans titre (RP 4)
signed with the artist's intial Y and numbered 5/6 (on the reverse)
painted bronze
21⅝ by 15 by 2¼ in.
55 by 38 by 5.5 cm.
Executed in 1961, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6, plus 2 artist’s proofs and 2 hors commerce.
Gallery Deux, Tokyo
Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above circa 1996)
Acquired from the above circa 2008 by the present owner
New York, The Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, January - March 1967, p. 54, illustrated (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Seibu Takanawa, Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Yves Klein, July 1985 - February 1986, no. 56, p. 63, illustrated in color (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Houston, Rice Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, A Retrospective, February 1982 - May 1983, no. 53, p. 162, illustrated in color
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain; Prato, Museo Pecci, Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial, April 2000 - January 2001, p. 142, illustrated in color (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Hannah Weitemeier, Yves Klein 1928-1962: International Klein Blue, Cologne 1995, p. 84
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Catalogue raisonné des éditions et sculptures éditées, Knokke Le Zoute 2000, no. RP 4, pp. 278-280, illustrated in color
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