A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

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Yves Klein

Relief Éponge bleu sans titre, (RE 28)

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November 18, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Yves Klein 

(1928 - 1962)


Relief Éponge bleu sans titre, (RE 28)

signed with the artist’s initials YK (on the reverse)

dry pigment and synthetic resin, natural sponges and pebbles on panel

31 by 50 ⅜ in.

78.7 by 128 cm.

Executed in 1961. 

Michel Couturier & Cie., Paris

Pierre and Marianne Nahon, Paris

Private Collection, Switzerland

Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in 2000)

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner 

Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, no. RE 28, p. 82, illustrated (with incorrect orientation)

Exh. Cat., New York, L&M Arts, Yves Klein: A Career Survey, 2005, p. 68, illustrated (with the artist in process on the beach in Malibu, June 1961)

Rotraut Klein-Moquay and Robert Pincus-Witten, Yves Klein USA, Paris, 2009, p. 137, illustrated in color; pp. 138-39, illustrated (with the artist in process on the beach in Malibu, June 1961); p. 201

Pierre Nahon, L'histoire de la Galerie Beaubourg III, 1994—2009, Paris, 2009, p. 42, illustrated in color (in-situ in the home of Pierre and Marianne Nahon); pp. 110-11, illustrated in color (in installation with incorrect orientation at FIAC); p. 161, illustrated in color (in installation with incorrect orientation at FIAC)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (and traveling), Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers, 2010, p. 290, illustrated (with the artist in process on the beach in Malibu, June 1961)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (and traveling), Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery: 1959-1971, 2016, p. 41; p. 243, illustrated (with the artist in process on the beach in Malibu, June 1961)  

Matthias Koddenberg, Yves Klein—In/Out, Dortmund, 2016, pp. 234-35, illustrated in color; p. 402

Exh. Cat., Aix-en-Provence, Hôtel de Caumont, Centre d’Art, Yves Klein, Intime, 2022, pp. 80-81, illustrated (with the artist and Rotraut Uecker in process on the beach in Malibu, June 1961) 

Yves Klein Archives, Paris, ongoing, no. RE 28, illustrated in color; illustrated (with the artist in process on the beach in Malibu, June 1961); illustrated (with the artist and Rotraut Uecker in process on the beach in Malibu, June 1961) (online)

Vence, Galerie Beaubourg, La modernité après 1958—les Nouveaux Réalistes, 1997

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