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Lot Closed

January 25, 03:19 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Yves Klein

1928 - 1962

Table Monogold™

 

signed R.Klein-Moquay and numbered 08 DE-ENO on a label affixed to the underside

3000 gold leaves, Plexiglas, wood and chrome metal-plated legs

39.2 by 100 by 125.3 cm; 15 3/8 by 39 3/8 by 49 3/8


Conceived in 1961, this work is part of an edition started in 1963 under the supervision of Rotraut Klein-Moquay after a model by Yves Klein.

Galerie Fabien Boulakia , Paris, France

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008

Private collection, United Kingdom

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Yves Klein, 1965, no. 83 (edition no. unknown)

Brussels, Palais des Beaux Artes, Yves Klein, 1966, no. 77 (edition no. unknown)

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Yves Klein, 1969 (edition no. unknown)

Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Yves Klein, 1970, no. 70 (edition no. unknown)

Seibu Takanawa, The Museum of Modern Art; and travelling, Yves Klein, 1985, p. 151, no. 6 (edition no. unknown)


Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 100, no. S 39 (edition no. unknown)



Sotheby's would like to thank the Yves Klein Foundation for their assistance in the cataloguing of the present lot.