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Yves Klein"International Klein Blue" (IKB) is a process registered in France on 19 May 1960 at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) under Soleau envelope no. 63471 by the French artist Yves Klein. It combines ultramarine blue pigment with a very specific binder created with the help of a chemist.
Alongside works by Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning, Klein's painting RE 46 (1960) was among the top-five sellers at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale in May 2006. His monochromatic blue sponge painting sold for $4,720,000. Previously, his painting RE I (1958) had sold for $6,716,000 at Christie's New York in November 2000. [33]
IKB 79 is a painting by French artist Yves Klein, made in 1959. It is one of his monochrome series of around 200. It uses a shade of blue that he developed, International Klein Blue, based on the pigment ultramarine. The painting has the dimensions of 139.7 by 119.7 cm. It is held at the Tate Modern, in London. [1] [2]
This was one of the few paintings to which Klein gave a title. Paul Nyzam, in the Yves Klein website states: "With their absorptive and highly material 'living' sponges affixed to a monochrome plane of colour, Klein's sponge-reliefs are the quintessential (ultramarine International Klein Blue) but within the context of Klein's spiritual trinity ...
ANT 82, Blue Age Anthropometry (original French title ANT 82, Anthropométrie de l'époque bleue) is a painting by French artist Yves Klein, created in 1960. Purchased in 1984, this work is part of the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne , in Paris .
Pages in category "Paintings by Yves Klein" ... ANT 82, Blue Age Anthropometry; F. FC1 (Fire Color 1) H. Hiroshima (painting) I. IKB 79; R. Le Rose du Bleu (RE 22)
According to Klein, the intention was to declare the entire 24-hour period an international theatrical happening, 'a holiday, a veritable spectacle of the void, at the culminating point of my theories. [2] ' Merging art and life seamlessly, Klein's theatre would encapsulate each spectator's life as they lived it on that day. [3]
Hiroshima, also known as ANT 79, is a painting by the French painter Yves Klein, created in 1961. Through the use of both anthropometry and monochromy, the work pays tribute to the victims of Hiroshima, affected by the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945, by the United States. The painting refers to the imprints of the burned bodies on the ...