Yves Klein Mixed Media For Auction at 888 Auctions on Dec 19th, 2019

Yves Klein French Mixed Media HAUSER & ORCHARD – Dec 19th, 2019

Mixed media on board, framed. Featuring a portrait. Gallery label inscribed HAUSER&ORCHARD GALLERY / Yves Klein / 1960. Stamped and inscribed L812 on verso. Also inscribed Yves Klein Foret d’Eponges / 1960. Another label inscribed Black Musee / CHATEAU DES TOURS and LTD KUNST GALLERY / DRESDEN. Attributed to Yves Klein (1928-1962, French). 23 x 19.5 cm (9.1 x 7.7 inches). PROVENANCE: This lot carries limited provenance from a Southern Italian estate

Yves Klein French Mixed Media HAUSER & ORCHARD – Lot 85 – Dec 19th, 2019

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Yves Klein

Yves Klein (1928-1962) was a French Conceptual artist with a wide-ranging and highly influential practice. Best remembered for his creation of a vivid shade of blue, he began creating his monochrome series in the 1950s. He developed and patent his own signature hue known as IKB, or International Klein Blue. For his Anthropométries series, the artist employed nude models to act as “living brushes” to paint canvases with their bodies covered in Klein Blue. “Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract,” he mused.

Born on April 28, 1928 in Nice, France, Klein became interested in Eastern mysticism as a 20 year old and later studied Judo in Japan before returning to France. The artist co-founded the Nouveau Réalisme movement in 1960, the same year he produced his hallmark work Leap into the Void. Other original members of Nouveau Réalisme included Arman, Jean Tinguely, and François Dufrêne. Klein’s blend of mysticism and performance art contrasted with the Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art sensibilities of the time. The artist’s brief but prolific life ended with his untimely death from a heart attack— thought to be contributed to by his use of amphetamines—at the age of 34 on June 6, 1962 in Paris, France.

Today his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others.

Auction Overview

Richmond Hill, ON – 412 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ December 19th auction featuring the finest in POP ART, CHINESE PAINTINGS, & LOOSE GEMSTONES  2019-12-19. Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.

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Monday, December 16: 10AM-5PM
Tuesday, December 17: 10AM-5PM
Wednesday, December 18: 10AM-5PM
Thursday, December 19: 10:30AM-1PM

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