Yves Klein

Private Collection, Tokyo
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Kaarst-Düsseldorf, Gallery 44, Yves Klein und seine Freunde, October 1986 - January 1987 (another example exhibited)
Parma, Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Une probabile umore dell'idea, April - May 1989, p. 33, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Galerie Gimpel, Yves Klein, June - September 1994 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Yves Klein, November 1994 - January 1995, cat. no. 112, p. 247, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Citta natura, Mostra internazionale di arte contemporanea, April 1997 (another example exhibited)
Vienna, Kunsthalle, Engel, Engel, Legenden der Gegenwart, June - September 1997, p. 221, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Le Bourget, Musée de l'air et de l'espace, L'art, l'air et l'espace, October 1999 (another example exhibited)
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Nice Movements - Contemporary French Art,  April - June 2000, p. 64, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice; Prato, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Yves Klein, La Vie, la vie elle-même qui est l'art absolu, April 2000 - January 2001, p. 182, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Museu de arte de Macau, Du Nouveau Réalisme à Supports Surfaces, July - August 2000, p. 89, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Pietrasanta, Italy, Flora Bigai, Nel blu dipinto di blu Yves Klein, July - September 2004, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Angers, Musée des Beaux Arts; Roanne, Musée Joseph Dechelette; Carcassonne, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Coblence, Museum Ludwig; LAAC Dunkerque, Marie Raymond - Yves Klein, November 2004 - June 2007, p. 175, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Yves Klein, January - May 2005 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Rive Gauche, Yves Klein et Niki de Saint Phalle,  February - March 2005 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Nouveau Réalisme: Revolution des Alltäglichen, March 2007 - January 2008 (another example exhibited)
Lugano, Museo d'Arte & Sculture in Città, Yves Klein & Rotraut, May - September 2009, pp. 178-179, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Arte, Marie Raymond - Yves Klein Herencias, October 2009 - January 2010, p. 160, illlustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Venice, Ca' Corner della Regina, The Small Utopia, Ars Multiplicata, Summer 2012 (another example exhibited)
Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Villa Datris, Sculpture du Sud, May - November 2014 (another example exhibited)
Zurich, Hotel Baur au Lac, Art in the Park, June - July 2014 (another example exhibited)

Exh. Cat., New York, Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, 1967, p. 51, illustrated
Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, cat. no. S9
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, 1983, n.p., illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Katalog zur Ausstellung, 1984, p. 107, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Artcurial, Hommage au Président Georges Pompidou un homme de culture, 1987, p. 28, illustrated in color
Veronique Prat, Douze ans de l'histoire d'Artcurial, Paris, 1987, n.p., illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Premier volet des collections, p. 11, illustrated in color
Claude Fournet, Musées de Nice - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Paris, 1990, p. 31, illustrated in color
Claude Fournet and Jacqueline Péglion, eds., Chroniques niçoises - Genèse d'un Musée, Nice, 1991
Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1994, p. 247, illustrated in color
Gilles-François Picard, "Yves Klein ou la Révolution bleue," Paris, December 5, 1997, p. 104, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, 1998, n.p., illustrated in color
Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Yves Klein 1928-1962: A Retrospective, 1982, cat. no. 92, illustrated in color
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Yves Klein: Catalogue raisonné des éditions, et sculptures éditées, Knokke-Le-Zoute, 2000, cat. no. S9
Nicholas Charlet, Yves Klein, Paris, 2000, p. 231, illustrated in color
Marco Livingstone, Pop Art, Paris, 2000, p. 54, illustrated in color
Hannah Weitermeier, Yves Klein, 1928-1962: International Klein Blue, London, 2001, p. 2, illustrated in color
Janny Lumeau, Des mots bleus por "Klein le monochrome," France, 2003, illustrated in color on the cover
Véronique Prat, La Collection de Georges et Claude Pompidou, Paris, 2004, p. 81, illustrated in color
Léo Pajon, La Victoire de Samothrace, Paris, 2005, p. 118, illustrated in color
Sandrine Andrews, Yves Klein à la conquète de l'espace, Paris, 2006, p. 26, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Le Nouveau Réalisme, 2007, p. 199, illustrated in color
Exh., Cat., Städtisches Museum Abeitberg Mönchengladbach, Kunst der Gegenwart/1960 bis 2007, 2007, n.p. illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Zurich, Galerie Gmurzynska, Yves Klein - The Venus Project, 2014, p. 34, illustrated in color
Giovanni Lista, "Les sculptures d’Yves Klein et le spatialisme de Lucio Fontana," Ligeia dossiers sur l'art, Paris, Vol. XXVII, No. 129-132, January - July 2014, p. 25, illustrated in color

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. The surface is bright and fresh. There is a slightly irregular texture to the surface including some air bubbles to the pigment which are inherent to the artist's working method. The stone base has yellowed slightly with age.
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