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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Klein, Yves (1928 - 1962) France
S 41, 1962-82
Blue pigment on plaster; 68 x 30 x 27 cm Nouveau Réalisme
UID 102-307
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Biography
French painter, sculptor and writer, Yves Klein was influenced by the Abstract art of his mother, Marie Raymond, from an early age. He had no formal artistic training but his first attempts at painting were in 1946, the year in which he met Arman who would later be associated with him in Nouveau Réalisme. Between 1949 and 1950, he worked at the Robert Savage frame shop where he learnt painting techniques and the application of gold leaf. In 1950, he had his first exhibition in London and, in 1953, exhibited a series of monochromatic paintings in Tokyo. In 1956, Klein achieved great critical and public recognition, mainly through his exhibition, Yves: Propositions Monochromes at the Colette Allendy Gallery, in Paris. In 1958, he executed his first Anthropométries: impressions of female bodies, covered in the "Blue of Yves Klein" and presented his first blank paintings. In 1960, he co-founded the Nouveaux Réalistes and created Cosmogonies, images created by the force of natural elements (rain, wind, leaves). In 1961, he produced his first planetarium relief and his first fire paintings. In 1983, he had a major retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou and, in 1994, at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.
Exhibitions
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Uma Escolha numa Colecção Particular Galeria Valentim de Carvalho, Portugal 08-07-1993 ~ 28-07-1993
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Monographie, 2000 Published by Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
Sotheby's, Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art and Ceramics, London, Wednesday, 24 th and Thursday 25 th March 1993, lot. 327, 1993 Published by Sotheby´s
Yves Klein, 1969
Yves Klein, 1997 Published by The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway and Finland. ISBN 8291727015
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