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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 1, 2014 | Christie's | London | Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 8 | $****** - ****** | Untitled Blue Monochrome (IKB 164) |
paintings
64.8 x 50 cm (25.51 x 19.69 in)
dry pigment and synthetic resin on gauze laid down on panel
signed with the artist’s initials, dated and stamped with the artist's monogram ‘YK 62’ (on the overlap); signed, inscribed and dated ‘Yves Klein Le monochrome 1962 i.K.B’ (on the reverse)
Michael and Dorothy Blankfort, Los Angeles (acquired directly from the artist).
Private Collection, Los Angeles (by descent from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 5 April 1990, lot 634.
Private Collection, New York.L & M Arts, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.
Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Serial Imagery, 1968, p. 142, no. 147 (illustrated in colour, p. 65).Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection, 1982, p. 103, no. 104 (illustrated, p. 61, incorrectly titled IKB Monochrome (IKB 218)). New York, L & M Arts, Yves Klein: A Career Survey, 2005, no. 23 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Le Nouveau Réalisme, 2008, no. 28 (illustrated in colour, p. 60). This exhibition later travelled to Hannover, Sprengel Museum.Krems-Stein, Kunsthalle Krems, Nouveau Réalisme, 2010-2011.
P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 75, no. IKB 164.
