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YVES KLEIN (1928-1962)
Sculpture éponge bleue sans titre (SE 328)
dry pigment and synthetic resin on natural sponge, metal rod and stone base
sculpture: 13 3/4 x 11 x 4 3/4in. (35 x 28 x 12cm.)
base: 4 1/4 x 7 x 7 1/8in. (10.8 x 17.8 x 18cm.)
overall: 18 x 11 3/8 x 7 1/8in. (45.8 x 29cm x 18cm.)
Executed circa 1959
Provenance
Collection of Hanns Hülsberg, Hagen.
Private Collection, Germany.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz Cologne, 17 June 2021, lot 11.
Private Collection, Europe.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Yves Klein, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, 1983 (studio view illustrated, p. 336).
H. Weitemeier, Yves Klein 1928-1962 International Klein Blue, Cologne 2001 (studio view illustrated, p. 45).
O. Berggruen, M. Hollein, I. Pfeiffer (eds.), Yves Klein exh. cat., Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2004 (studio view illustrated, p. 98; installation view at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, illustrated p. 78).
Yves Klein: A Career Survey, exh. cat., New York, L&M Arts, 2005 (studio view illustrated, p. 26).
B. Corà and D. Moquay (eds.), Yves Klein exh. cat., Lugano, Museo d’Arte della Città di Lugano, 2009 (studio view illustrated, pp. 150-151).
D. Horowitz (ed.), Yves Klein With the Void, Full Powers, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2010 (studio view illustrated, p. 143).
M. Koddenberg (ed.), Yves Klein in/out studio, Dortmund 2016 (studio view illustrated, pp. 110-111).
V. Schmitz-Grucker, 'Yves Klein: In Search of Infinity', in La Gazette Drouot, 10 June 2021 (detail illustrated in colour).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Iris Clert, Bas-reliefs dans une forêt d'éponges, 1959.
Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Yves Klein Monochrome und Feuer, 1961, no. 44.
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