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Yves Klein
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Description
- Yves Klein
- Victoire de Samothrace
- signed, dated 62 and numbered 123/175; numbered 123/175 on the underside of the base
- blue pigment on plaster with a metal and stone base
- height: 51.4cm.; 20¼in.
- Conceived in 1961-1962, this work was cast in 1973 by Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris.
Provenance
Galerie Van Örde, Antwerp
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1978
Literature
Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 97, no. S9, illustration of the original cast
Exhibition Catalogue, Bern, Kunsthalle, Yves Klein, 1971, p. 106, illustration of the original cast
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Catalogue Raisonné des Editions et Sculptures Editées, Knokke-le-Zoute 2000, p. 228, no. S9, illustration of another cast in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Bern, Kunsthalle, Yves Klein, 1971, p. 106, illustration of the original cast
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Catalogue Raisonné des Editions et Sculptures Editées, Knokke-le-Zoute 2000, p. 228, no. S9, illustration of another cast in colour