Yves Klein

incised with the artist's initials and dated 62 on the right wing; numbered EA XIX / XXV on the back of the figure; numbered EA XIX / XXV on the underside of the base

sculpture: 19.1/2 x 10.1/4 x 11.3/4 in.: 49.5 x 26 x 29.8 cm

overall: 21.5/8 x 10.1/4 x 11.3/4 in.: 55 x 26 x 29.8 cm

Private collection, France

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; catalogue, p.33, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited) 

London, Galerie Gimpel, Yves Klein, June - September 1994 (another example exhibited) 

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Yves Klein, November 1994 - January 1995; catalogue, p.247, no.112, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited) 

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Citta natura, Mostra internazionale di arte contemporanea, April 1997 (another example exhibited) 

Vienna, Kunsthalle, Engel, Legenden der Gegenwart, June - September 1997; catalogue, p.221, illustrated in colour (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; catalogue, p.64, illustrated in colour (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; catalogue, p.182, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Museu de arte de Macau, Du Nouveau Réalisme à Supports Surfaces, July - August 2000; catalogue, p.89, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited) 

Pietrasanta, Flora Bigai, Nel blu dipinto di blu Yves Klein, July - September 2004; catalogue, n.p., illustrated in colour (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; catalogue, p. 175, illustrated in colour (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; catalogue, pp.178-179, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited) 

Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Arte, Marie Raymond - Yves Klein Herencias, October 2009 - January 2010; catalogue, p.160, illlustrated in colour (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, no.59 

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, 1983, n.p., illustrated in colour 

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 colour 

Veronique Prat, Douze ans de l'histoire d'Artcurial, Paris, 1987, n.p., illustrated in colour 

Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Premier volet des collections, p.11, illustrated in colour 

Claude Fournet, Musées de Nice - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Paris, 1990, p.31, illustrated in colour 

Claude Fournet and Jacqueline Péglion, eds., Chroniques niçoises - Genèse d'un Musée, Nice, 1991, n.p. 

Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1994, p. 247, illustrated in colour 

Gilles-François Picard, "Yves Klein ou la Révolution bleue," Paris, 1997, p.104, illustrated 

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, 1998, n.p., illustrated in colour 

Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Yves Klein 1928-1962: A Retrospective, 1982, no. 92, illustrated in colour 

Jean-Paul Ledeur, Yves Klein: Catalogue raisonné des éditions, et sculptures éditées, Knokke-Le-Zoute, 2000, no. S9 

Nicholas Charlet, Yves Klein, Paris, 2000, p.231, illustrated in colour 

Marco Livingstone, Pop Art, Paris, 2000, p.54, illustrated in colour 

Hannah Weitermeier, Yves Klein, 1928-1962: International Klein Blue, London 2001, p. 2, illustrated in colour 

Janny Lumeau, Des mots bleus por "Klein le monochrome," France 2003, illustrated in colour on the cover 

Véronique Prat, La Collection de Georges et Claude Pompidou, Paris 2004, p. 81, illustrated in colour 

Léo Pajon, La Victoire de Samothrace, Paris 2005, p. 118, illustrated in colour

Sandrine Andrews, Yves Klein à la conquète de l'espace, Paris 2006, p. 26, illustrated in colour 

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Le Nouveau Réalisme, 2007, p. 199, illustrated in colour 

Exh., Cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Kunst der Gegenwart/1960 bis 2007, 2007, n.p. illustrated in colour 

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Galerie Gmurzynska, Yves Klein - The Venus Project, 2014, p. 34, illustrated in colour 

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 colour