"La Terre Bleue"
Numbered 193/300 with ink on a label affixed to the underside and with the artist's relief-stamped star. IKB pigment and synthetic resin on plaster cast. Height 35 cm. In a plexiglass box, 41 x 29 x 29 cm. With a label underneath "Editee par La Galerie Bonnier a Genève. Realisee par Jean-Paul Ledeur a Paris," underneath. Conceived in 1957 by Yves Klein and produced in 1990 by Galerie Bonnier, Geneva in collaboration with Jean-Paul Ledeur, Paris.
Saleroom notice
Stockholms Auktionsverk, Konst & Design, October 16, 2000, lot no. 441.
Provenance
Stockholms Auktionsverk, Konst & Design, October 16, 2000, lot no. 441.
Andreas Pajor Art Collection AB, Sweden.
Private Collection, Sweden.
Exhibitions
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne, "Yves Klein", March - May 1983, p. 109, no. 56 (another example exhibited).
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain and Museo Pecci Prato, "Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial!", April 2000 - January 2001, p. 184 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, Marie Raymond, "Yves Klein", November 2004 - February 2005, p. 190 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Literature
P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne, 1969, p. 109, no. RP7 (another example illustrated).
P. Restany, Yves Klein, New York, 1982, p. 226 (another example illustrated).
J.P. Ledeur, Yves Klein: Catalogue of Editions and Sculptures Edited, Belgium, 1999, p. 242 (another example illustrated).
N. Charlet, Yves Klein, Paris, 2000, p. 230 (another example illustrated).
H. Weitemeier, Yves Klein: International Klein Blue, Cologne, 2001, p. 83 (another example illustrated).
More information
“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not. They are pre-psychological expanses, red, for example, presupposing a site radiating heat. All colors arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.” — Yves Klein
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