Yves Klein (1928-1962)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Yves Klein (1928-1962)

La Vénus d'Alexandrie (Vénus Bleue)

Details
Yves Klein (1928-1962)
La Vénus d'Alexandrie (Vénus Bleue)
numbered '218/300' (lower back edge); numbered again '218/300' (on the underside)
IKB pigment and synthetic resin on plaster cast
27 x 10 x 10 in. (68.5 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1982. This work is number two hundred and eighteen from an edition of three hundred.
Provenance
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne,1969, no. S 41, p.100 (the original plaster illustrated).
P. Restany, Yves Klein, Paris, 1982, no. S 41, p. 204 (illustrated). S. Stich, Yves Klein, Stuttgart, 1994, p.247 (illustrated).
Yves Klein, exh. cat., Cologne, 1994, no. 111, p. 247 (illustrated).
Yves Klein, exh. cat., Oslo, 1997, no. 66, p. 79 (illustrated).
Yves Klein, exh. cat., Lisbon, 1998, p. 5 (illustrated).
J.-P. Ledeur, Yves Klein: Catalogue Raisonné of Editions and Sculptures, Paris, 2000, no. S 41, p.234 (illustrated).
N. Charlet, Yves Klein, Paris, 2000, p. 231 (illustrated).
Yves Klein, La Vie, la vie elle-meme qui est l'art absolu, exh. cat., Nice, 2000-2001, p. 183 (illustrated).

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