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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 37 | $****** - ****** | Rélief Éponge Bleu (RE 51) | |||
Jun 27, 2012 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 12 | $****** - ****** | Rélief Éponge Bleu (RE 51) |
paintings
103.5 x 102.5 x 9 cm (40.75 x 40.35 x 3.54 in)
dry pigment and synthetic resin, natural sponges and pebbles on board
signed and dated 59 on the reverse
Galerie Iris Clert, Paris
Lucio Fontana, Milan
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1959)
Private Collection, Europe (by descent from the above)
Christie's, London, June 27, 2012, Lot 12 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Paris, Galerie Iris Clert, Bas-reliefs dans une forêt d'éponges, June 1959; Lissone, XV Premio Lissone internazionale di pittura, 1967; Rome, Galleria l'Obelisco, Yves Klein, le monochrome, 1970, cat. no. 7; Milan, Palazzo Reale, Metamorfosi dell'oggetto, January - February 1972, cat. no. 4, n.p., illustrated; Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Azimuth & Azimuth. 1959: Castellani, Manzoni e.., June - July 1984, p. 40, illustrated (incorrect orientation); Parma, Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Un probabile umore dell'idea, 1989, p. 21, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the cover; Venice, XLV Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. La Biennale di Venezia, 1993; Milan, Fonte d'Abisso Arte, Nouveaux Réalistes anni'60: La memoria viva di Milano, October - December 1997, cat. no. 29, p. 53, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University (and travelling), Yves Klein 1928-1962: A Retrospective, 1982, fig. 45, p. 311, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, 1983, p. 347, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Exh. Cat., Tokyo, The Museum of Modern Art (and travelling), Yves Klein, 1985, fig. 78, p. 122, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Exh. Cat., Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (and travelling), Yves Klein, 1994, p. 161, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial!, 2000, p. 225, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Exh. Cat., Frankfurt, Schirin Kunsthalle Frankfurt (and travelling), Yves Klein, 2004, p. 220, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Denys Riout, Yves Klein. L'aventure monochrom e, Paris, 2006, p. 49, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein. Corps, couleur, immateriel, 2006, p. 296, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959); Rotraut Klein-Moquay and Robert Pincus-Witten, Yves Klein USA, Paris, 2009, n.p., illustrated (in installation at Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, June 1959)
