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PROPERTY FROM THE HELGA AND WALTHER LAUFFS COLLECTION

Yves Klein
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PROPERTY FROM THE HELGA AND WALTHER LAUFFS COLLECTION

Yves Klein
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LOT SOLD. 17,401,000 USD
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Yves Klein
1928 - 1962
IKB 1
dry pigment and synthetic resin on canvas laid down on plywood
56 3/4 x 44 7/8 in. 144 x 114 cm.
Executed in 1960.
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Provenance

Rotraut Klein-Moquay, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above in August 1968

Exhibited

Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Yves Klein: Monochrome und Feuer, January - February 1961, cat. no. 5
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Yves Klein, October - December 1965, cat. no. 1
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, L'Espace intérieur, une exposition concernant un art universel, December 1965 - February 1966, cat. no. 150
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Yves Klein, March - April 1966, cat. no. 1
New York, The Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, January - March 1967
Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Wendepunkt: Kunst in Europa um 1960, May - July 1980, cat. no. 24
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Sammlung Helga und Walther Lauffs - Amerikanische und europäische Kunst der sechziger und siebziger Jahre, November 1983 - April 1984, cat. no. 188, p. 25, illustrated in color
Krefeld, Museen Haus Esters und Haus Lange, Im Weißen Raum: Lucio Fontana und Yves Klein, November 1994 - February 1995, cat. no. 7, illustrated in color

Literature

Paul Wember, Yves Klein: Werkverzeichnis, Ausstellungsverzeichnis, Cologne, 1969, pl. 2, p. 12, illustrated in color and p. 72
Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1972, pl. 2, p. 12, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Yves Klein: Monochrome und Feuer, 1994 reprint, p. 22, 25, and 48, illustrated (installation)

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