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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 27, 2012 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 9 | $****** - ****** | Le Rose du bleu (RE 22) |
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199 x 153 x 16 cm (78.35 x 60.24 x 6.3 in)
dry pigment in synthetic resin, natural sponges and pebbles on board
titled 'Le Rose du bleu' (on the reverse)
Collection Madeleine Everaert, Brussels. François de Menil, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1980.
Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Yves Klein: Monochrome und Feuer, 1961. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, La Métamorphose de l'Objet, 1971. This exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen; Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Milan, Palazzo Reale; Basel, Kunsthalle and Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Houston, Rice Museum, Yves Klein 1928-1962: A Retrospective, 1982, no. 43 (illustrated in colour, p. 159). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, 1983, no. 43 (illustrated in colour, p. 127). New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Painterly Visions, 1985. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, 1996. Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein: Corps, couleur, immatériel, 2006-2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 121). This exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers, 2010-2011 (illustrated in colour, p. 141). This exhibition later travelled to Minneapolis, Walker Art Center.
P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, no. RE 22, p. 82, no.6 (illustrated in colour, p. 19). Yves Klein, exh. cat., Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, 1971 (illustrated in colour, p. 39). Yves Klein, exh. cat., Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2004 (installation view illustrated, p. 79). P. Restany, Fire at the Heart of the Void, Putnam 2005 (illustrated in colour, p. 94). K. Ottmann, Yves Klein. Works/Writings, Barcelona 2010 (illustrated in colour, p. 23).
