Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection
Yves Klein
Peinture de feu sans titre (F 11)
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection
Yves Klein
1928 - 1962
Peinture de feu sans titre (F 11)
titled (on the reverse); inscribed by Rotraut Klein-Moquay Ce tableau est un oeuvre authentique d'Yves Klein R. Klein (on the reverse)
burnt cardboard mounted on panel
23 ⅞ by 19 ¾ in.
60.6 by 50.2 cm.
Executed in 1961.
Samy Tarica, Paris
Private Collection, Germany
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug
Acquired from the above in June 2006 by the present owner
Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Dusseldorf Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Yves Klein, November 1994 - January 1995, no. 790, p. 179, illustrated in color
Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst; Tampere, Sara Hildenin Art Museum and Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yves Klein, April 1997 - March 1998, no. 26, p. 43, 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. 199 and p. 345, illustrated in color (in alternate orientation)
Art International Zurich, March 1961, vol. v/2, no. 61, illustrated
Art et creation, no. 1, January - February 1968, Paris, p. 72, illustrated
Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 123, illustrated