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YVES KLEIN (1928-1962)

Lot 207
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Lot 207 | YVES KLEIN (1928-1962)
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YVES KLEIN (1928-1962)

Victoire de Samothrace

numbered '124/175' (lower edge); signed with the artist's initials and numbered again ‘YK 124/175’ (on the underside)

dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster, with metal and stone base

19 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. (50 x 26 x 29 cm.)

Conceived in 1962 and executed in 1973. This work is number one hundred and twenty four from an edition of one hundred and seventy five.





Provenance

Private collection, Modena

Private collection, Modena

By descent from the above to the present owner



Literature

P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, p. 97, no. S9 (another example illustrated).

P. Restany, Yves Klein, Paris, 1982, p. 235 (another example illustrated).

Hommage au Président Georges Pompidou un homme de culture, Paris, 1987 p. 28 (another example illustrated).

V. Prat, Douze ans de l'histoire d'Artcurial, Paris 1987, n.p. (another example illustrated).

C. Fournet, exh. cat., Paris, Musées de Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, 1990, p. 31 (another example illustrated).

Chroniques niçoises, Genèse d'un Musée, tome I: 1945-1972, Nice, 1991, pp. 250-251 (another example illustrated).

H. Weitemeier, Yves Klein 1928-1962, International Klein Blue, Cologne, 1994, pp. 23-24 (another example illustrated).

L. Zelevansky, L. Hoptman, A. Tatehata and A. Munroe, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, 1998, p. 56 (another example illustrated).

N. Charlet and P. Restany, Yves Klein, Paris, 2000, p. 231 (another example illustrated).

N. Charlet, Yves Klein, Sculpteur, Paris, 2000, p. 80.

R. Fleck, Marie Raymond, Yves Klein, Angers, 2004, p.175, no. 206 (another example illustrated).

A. Jouffroy, Manifeste pour Yves Klein, Paris, 2006 (another example illustrated on the cover).



Exhibited

New York, Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, January-March 1967, p. 51 (another example illustrated).

Kunsthalle Bern, Yves Klein, August 1971, n.p., no. S9 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Yves Klein, February-March 1973, n.p., no. S9.

Geneva, Galerie Bonnier, Yves Klein, Le Monochrome, April 1979, n.p.

Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The 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. 170, no. 92 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Yves Klein, 1983, n.p., no. 108 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery and Scottsdale, Yares Gallery, Yves Klein, February-April 1986, n.p., no. 21 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Monochrome Paintings and Sponge Reliefs by Yves Klein, April-May 1986, n.p., no. 24 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Cologne, Ludwig Museum; Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; London, Hayward Gallery and Madrid, Museo National Centro de Arte de Reina Sofía, Yves Klein, November 1994-August 1995, p. 247, no. 112 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst, The National Museum of Contemporary Art; Tampere, Sara Hilden Art Museum and Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yves Klein, April 1997-March 1998, pp. 75 and 212, no. 62 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Basel, Museum Jean Tinguely, Tinguely's Favorites: YVES KLEIN, December 1999-April 2000, p. 83 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Nice, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain and Prato, Museo Pecci, Yves Klein, La vie elle-même qui est l'art absolu, April 2000-January 2001, p. 182 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Fondation Villa Datris, Sculpture du Sud d'une rive a' l'autre de la Me´diterrane´e, May-November 2004, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Le Nouveau Réalisme, September 2007-January 2008, pp. 199 and 251, no. 132 (another example illustrated).

Lugano, Museo d'Arte, Yves Klein, May-September 2009, pp. 178-179 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Madrid, Circulo de bellas arte, Marie Raymond - Yves Klein Herencias, October 2009-January 2010, pp. 160 and 208 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Woodstock, Blenheim Palace, Yves Klein, July-October 2018, pp. 75 and 124, no. S9 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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