Relief Éponge bleu sans titre, (RE 28)
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November 19, 12:49 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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Yves Klein
(1928 - 1962)
Relief Éponge bleu sans titre, (RE 28)
signed with the artist’s initials YK (on the reverse)
dry pigment and sꦉynthetic resin, natural sponges and pebbles on p😼anel
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 a꧟bove in 2000♋)
A🐟cquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner
Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, no. RE 28, p. 82, illustrated (with incorr🐬ect orientation)
Exh. Cat., New York, L&M Arts, Yves Klein: A Career Survey, 2005, p. 68, ill𒊎ustrated (with the artist in process on the beac𝓀h 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 th♏e 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 Nahon꧒); 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 ar𓂃tist 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 iღn 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, Juꦑne 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 Uec𝄹ker 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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