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Materials:

gold leaf on wood panel

Size Notes:

24 1?2 x 17 7?8 in. (62.2 x 45.4 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, The Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, January-March 1967. Houston, Rice Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein: 1928 - 1962, A Retrospective, February 1982-May 1983, p. 158, no. 41 (illustrated). Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, March-May 1983. New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Monochrome Paintings and Sponge Reliefs by Yves Klein, April-May 1986. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Revolution: Art of the Sixties from Warhol to Beuys, September-December 1995. Esslingen, Galerie der Stadt-Villa Merkel and Nice, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, ZERO et Paris. Et aujourd'hui, October 1997-June 1998. Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Yves Klein - Corps, Couleur, immateriel, October 2006-February 2007, p. 89 (illustrated). Dallas, The Warehouse, Geometries On and Off the Grid, Art from 1950 to the Present, February-June 2015, pp. 15, 81 and 367 (installation view illustrated). Tate Liverpool and Brussels, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Yves Klein, October 2016-March 2017.

Literature:

P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, p. 78.

Provenance:

The artist Mrs. Alexander Kommel, New York Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Jurgen Pierburg, Germany, 1980 Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf Private collection, Germany Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009