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Yves Klein

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Description

  • Yves Klein
  • ANT 23
  • signed, dated 7.3.60 and inscribed with the star
  • pigment and synthetic resin on paper laid down on canvas
  • 93.5 by 55.2cm.
  • 36 3/4 by 21 5/8 in.

Provenance

Rotraut Klein-Moquay, Paris

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Yves Klein, 1963, no. 19

Jerusalem, Israel Museum; Marseilles, Musée Cantini, Peindre dans la Lumière de la Mediterranée, 1987, p. 225, no. 95, illustrated in colour

London, Hayward Gallery; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, La France, Images of Woman and Ideas of Nation, 1789-1989, 1989, no. 99

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Posséder et Détuire, 2000, p. 225, no. 108, illustrated

Literature

Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 103, no. ANT 23, illustrated

Catalogue Note

 

This work was executed on 7 March 1960 by Yves Klein in preparation for his much publicised live performance two days later at the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain in 1960 (see Fig. 1).