Contours of Modernity | A Private European Collection
Yves Klein
Monochrome IKB
Auction Closed
March 5, 01:57 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Yves Klein
1928 - 1962
Monochrome IKB
pigment and resin on card
21.5 by 18.8 cm. 8½ by 7 in.
framed: 36.6 by 32.6 cm. 14⅜ by 12⅞ in.
Executed in 1959, this work is one of 60 unique examples created for the deluxe edition of Yves Klein's manifesto Le depassement de la problematique de l’art, published by Editions de Montbliart.
Please note that this work will require to be viewed in Paris following the auction in order to be formally registered in the Archives Yves Klein.
Galerie Pascal Retelet, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2001)
Sotheby's, Milan, 25 November 2008, lot 245 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Genova, Museo dell'Accademia Linguistica di Belle Arti e Loggia di Bianchi o della Mercanzia, Periplo del Mediterraneo: Maestri e nuove espressioni tra Genova e Istanbul, May - June 2004, p. 54, illustrated in colour