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Relief Planétaire Bleu, (RP 17) by Yves Klein

Yves Klein

Relief Planétaire Bleu, (RP 17), 1961

Pure pigment and synthetic resin on plaster mounted on panel
49 x 72 cm (19.29 x 28.35 in)
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, London (11 Feb 2015)
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Feb 11, 2015
Christie'sLondonPost-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction7
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Relief Planétaire Bleu, (RP 17)
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

49 x 72 cm (19.29 x 28.35 in)

Materials

pure pigment and synthetic resin on plaster mounted on panel

Signature

signed and dated ‘Yves Klein 1961’ (on the reverse)

Provenance

Galerie Sami Tarica, Paris.Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm.

Private Collection, Stockholm.Stephen S. Alpert, Boston.Galerie Bonnier, Geneva.Acquired from the above by the current owner in 1996.

Exhibited

Geneva, Galerie Bonnier, Yves Klein, 1979, no. 10. (incorrectly labelled as RP 19)Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Yves Klein 1928-1962: A Retrospective, 1982-1983 p. 344, no. 57 (illustrated in color, p. 162). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou.Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Dusseldorf, Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Yves Klein, 1995, p. 287, no. 142 (illustrated in color, p. 241). This exhibition later travelled to London, Hayward Gallery and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

Literature

P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, no. RP 17 (illustrated, p. 138).Yves Klein, exh. cat., Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1983 (illustrated in color, p. 159).Yves Klein Now: Sixteen Views, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, 1995 (illustrated in color, unpaged).