LOT DETAILS

Materials:

dry pigments and synthetic resin on panel with artist's frame

Measurements:

55.51 in. (141.00 cm.) (height) by 117.91 in. (299.50 cm.) (width) by 1.18 in. (3.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Yves Klein, October-December 1965, no. 40 (illustrated). Stockholm, Moderna Museet, L'espace intérieur et extérieur, une exposition concernant un art universel, December 1965-February 1966, no. 198. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Yves Klein, March-April 1966, no. 40 (illustrated). Lausanne, Galerie Bonnier, Yves Klein: Peintures de feu, 1966, no. 26 (illustrated). New York, Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, January-March 1967. Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Yves Klein, February-March 1968, no. 29 (illustrated). Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Yves Klein in Nüremberg, April-May 1968. Prague, Narodni Galerie, Yves Klein 1928-1962, 1968, no. 34 (illustrated). Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Yves Klein, December 1970, no. 29 (illustrated in color). Belgrade, Muzej savremene umetnosti, Yves Klein, slike, reljefi, skulpture, February-March 1971, no. 22 (illustrated). Zagreb, Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Yves Klein, March-April 1971, no. 45 (illustrated). Berne, Kunsthalle and Kunstverein Hannover, Yves Klein, August 1971, no. 34 (illustrated). Cagnes-sur-Mer, Château-Musée, Marie Raymond--Yves Klein, December 1972-February 1973. Nationalgalerie Berlin; Neuer Berliner Kunstverain and Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Yves Klein, June-August 1976, n.p. (illustrated). Houston, Rice Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Yves Klein, 1928-1962: A Retrospective, February 1982-January 1983, no. 74 (illustrated in color). Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, March-May 1983, p. 79 (illustrated). Seibu Takanawa, Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art and Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum, Yves Klein, July-September 1985. XXé Biennale Internationale de São Paulo; Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques and Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Yves Klein--Alain Jacquet--Antonio Semeraro--Insights, October. 1989-August 1990, p. 40 (illustrated in color). Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yves Klein: the Fire Paintings, October-December 1992. Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst; Tampere, Sara Hildénin Art Museum and Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Yves Klein, April 1997-March 1998, p. 185 (illustrated). Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, October-January 2000, no. 32 (illustrated in color). Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain and Prato, Museo Pecci, Yves Klein, Long Live the Immaterial!, April 2000-January 2001, pp. 180-181 (illustrated in color). Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Yves Klein into the Blue, September 2004-January 2005, p. 33 (illustrated in color). Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Yves Klein, January-May 2005, pp. 176-177 (illustrated in color). New York, Michael Werner, Yves Klein, Fire Paintings, October 2005, n.p. (illustrated). Dusseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast and Saint-Étienne Métropole, Musée d'Art Moderne, Zero--Internationale Küunstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, April-July 2006, pp. 150-151 (illustrated in color). Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Yves Klein: Corps, couleur, immatériel, October 2006-June 2007, n.p. (illustrated in color). Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum, Declaring Space: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, September 2007-February 2008, pp. 128-129 (illustrated in color). New York, Sperone Westwater, ZERO in New York, November-December 2008, n.p. (illustrated in color). Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers, May 2010-February 2011, pp. 242-243 (illustrated).

Literature:

P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, p. 134 (illustrated). P. Restany, Yves Klein, Paris, 1982, p. 223 (illustrated). J. Bory and P. Restany, Une vie dans l'art, Neuchâtel, 1983, pp. 28-29 (illustrated in color). N. Charlet, Yves Klein, Munich, 2000, pp. 222-223 (illustrated in color). G. Robinson, "Space explorers," Star-Telegram, September 2007, p. 4 (illustrated in color). F. Colpitt, Spatial Overtures, New York, 2008, pp. 58-61 (illustrated in color). K. Ottmann, Yves Klein, Barcelona, 2010, pp. 100-101 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Collection of the artist. Pierre Restany, Paris. Acquired from the above by the present owner.