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Yves Klein (1928-1962)

Lot 50
06.12.2023 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 50 | Yves Klein (1928-1962)
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Yves Klein (1928-1962)

La Venus d'Alexandrie (S 41)

signé de l'étoile et numéroté '29⁄300' (en-bas à l'arrière); avec le cachet de l'éditeur et numéroté '29⁄300' (au-dessous)

pigment pur et résine synthétique sur plâtre

66 x 27 x 18 cm.

Œuvre originale 1962 - Édition multiple posthume 1982; cette œuvre porte le numéro vingt-neuf d'une édition de trois-cents exemplaires, cinquante Hors Commerce et trois exemplaires avec le monogramme de l'artiste.



signed with the star and numbered '29⁄300' (to the bottom backside); with the editor's stamp and numbered '29⁄300' (to the underside)

dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster

26 x 10 5⁄8 x 7 1⁄8 in.

Original artwork 1962 - Posthumous multiple edition 1982; this work is number twenty-nine from an edition of three hundred, fifty Hors Commerce and three with the artist's monogram.





Provenance

Collection privée, Suisse

Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel



Literature

P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, No. S41 (le plâtre illustré p. 100).

P. Restany, Yves Klein, Paris, 1982, No. S41 (un autre exemplaire illustré p. 204).

J.-P. Ledeur, Yves Klein : Catalogue raisonné des éditions et sculptures éditées, Genève, 1982, No. S41 (un autre exemplaire illustré en couleurs p. 234).

C. Fournet, P. Restany, et M. Livingstone, Yves Klein, Nice, 1991 (un autre exemplaire illustré en couleurs p. 247).

H. Weitemeier, Yves Klein 1925-1962, International Klein Blue, Cologne, 1994, No. 25 (un autre exemplaire illustré en couleurs p. 92).

N. Charlet, Yves Klein, Sculpteur, Paris, 2000 (un autre exemplaire illustré p. 80).

M. Raymond et R. Fleck, Yves Klein, Paris, 2004, No. 227 (un autre exemplaire illustré en couleurs p. 193).



Exhibited

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, mars-mai 1983, p. 424, No. 109 (un autre exemplaire exposé).

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Yves Klein, Monochrome Paintings and Sponge Reliefs, avril-mai 1986, No. 24 (un autre exemplaire exposé).

Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, L'école de Nice et ses mouvements, 1989-1990 (un autre exemplaire exposé et illustré en couleurs au catalogue d'exposition n.p.).

Cologne, Museum Ludwig et Düsseldorf et Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (novembre-janvier); Londres, Hayward Gallery (février-avril); Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (mai-août), Yves Klein, 1994-1995 (un autre exemplaire exposé et illustré en couleurs au catalogue d'exposition p. 247).

Oslo, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (avril-août); Tampere, Sara Hildén Art Museum (septembre-novembre); Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art (décembre-mars), Yves Klein, 1997-1998, No. 66 (un autre exemplaire exposé et illustré en couleurs au catalogue d'exposition p. 79).

Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Yves Klein, la vie, la vie elle-même qui est l'art absolu, avril-septembre 2000, No. S.12 (un autre exemplaire exposé et illustré en couleurs au catalogue d'exposition p. 183).

Lugano, Museo d'Arte della Città di Lugano, Yves Klein, mai-septembre 2009 (un autre exemplaire exposé et illustré en couleurs au catalogue d'exposition p. 181).

Woodstock, Blenheim Palace, Yves Klein, juillet-octobre 2018 (un autre exemplaire exposé et illustré en couleurs au catalogue d'exposition pp. 73, 78-81, 124).
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