
Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection
Cosmogonie sans titre (COS 18)
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection
Yves Klein
1928 - 1962
Cosmogonie sans titre (COS 18)
signed, dated Mars 60 and inscribed monochrome (lower right)
dry pigment and synthetic resin on paper laid down on canvas
25 ⅝ by 19 ⅞ in.
65.1 by 50.5 cm.
Executed in 1960.
Private Collection
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug
Acquired from the above in June 2004 by the present owner
New York, The Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, January - March 1967, p. 62 (text)
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Yves Klein, December 1970, no. 41, p. 16, illustrated
Hanover, Kunstverein, Yves Klein, June - July 1971
Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yves Klein: reljefi i skulpture, February - March 1971, no. 12, illustrated in color
Kunsthalle Bern, Yves Klein, August 1971, no. 24
Chateau-Musee de Cagnes Sur-Mer, Marie Raymond - Yves Klein, December 1972 - February 1973, no. 21
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Works on Paper, 1993
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Nimes, Carré d'Art, Yves Klein, January 1993 - June 1994
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Yves Klein: Le Dépassement de la Problematique de l'Art, October 1993 - January 1994, p. 87, illustrated in color
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, L'empreinte, February - May 1997, no. 226, p. 282, illustrated in color
Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Taiwan's Treasures, Western Art from Private Collections, October - December 2001
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Yves Klein "Naturometries", June - August 2002, p. 94, illustrated
Burgdorf, Museum Franz Gertsch, Horizonte, April - July 2003, pp. 14-15, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers, May 2010 - February 2011, p. 154, illustrated in color
Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 120, illustrated
Giuliano Martano, Yves Klein: il mistero ostentanto, Turin 1970, p. 113, illustrated
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Yves Klein, Catalogue raisonné des editions et des sculptures, Belgium 2000, p. 176, illustrated in color