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Yves Klein (French: [iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration ...
Tate Modern, London. IKB 79 is a paint on canvas on plywood painting by French artist Yves Klein, from 1959. It is one of his monochrome paintings, of which he made around 200, in the colour blue that he conceived, International Klein Blue, based on pigment ultramarine. The current painting has the dimensions of 139.7 by 119.7 cm.
Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962. Yves Klein: although Klein had painted monochromes as early as 1949, and held the first private exhibition of this work in 1950, his first public showing was the publication of the artist's book Yves: Peintures in November 1954. Parodying a traditional catalogue, the book featured a series of intense monochromes ...
IKB 191 (1962), one of a number of works Klein painted with International Klein Blue. International Klein Blue (IKB) is a deep blue hue first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein. IKB's visual impact comes from its heavy reliance on ultramarine, as well as Klein's often thick and textured application of paint to canvas.
1960. Medium. dry pigment in synthetic resin, natural sponges and pebbles on board. Dimensions. 199 cm × 153 cm (78 in × 60 in) Location. Private collection. Le Rose du Bleu (RE 22), in English: The Pink of Blue (RE 22), is a painting created by French artist Yves Klein, in 1960. It is held in a private collection.
139.5 cm × 280.5 cm (54.9 in × 110.4 in) Location. Menil Collection, Houston. 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 ...
Yves Klein and Iris Clert first met in December 1955, when the still unknown artist approached Clert in her newly opened gallery, attempting to solicit his monochrome artwork. Klein persuaded Clert to keep one of his paintings, a small orange monochrome, as a trial run. She displayed the monochrome in the corner of the one-room gallery.
40. Yves Peintures (Eng: Yves Paintings) is an artist's book by the French artist Yves Klein, originally published in Madrid, on 18 November 1954. [1][2] This publication was Klein's first public gesture as an artist, featuring pages of 'commercially printed papers' [3] that were seemingly reproductions of paintings that, in fact, didn't exist.