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Yves KleinLa Terre Bleu, Klein, Blue Earth, Sculpture, Multiples, Pigment, Art, Design1988
1988
About the Item
Ed. 28/300 pcs
1988
Resin coated with blue pigment
36 x 21.5 x 19.5 cm
Provenance :
Yves Klein Archives, Paris
Literature :
Yves Klein : Catalogue des editions et des sculptures, by Jean-Paul Ledeur, Saint Paul-de-Vence, Editions Guy Pieters, 1999, similar piece referenced.
Despite the brevity of his career, Yves Klein left a distinctive and fascinating body of work which resonates in the history of art. In 1956, he embarked on his “Blue period”, to his mind, blue was a unique colour with the power to render the immaterial and invisible, such as space and the sky, visible.
In the oeuvre of Yves Klein, the Earth is a recurrent theme, appearing in multiple variants and forming a series more globally entitled “Planetary reliefs”. La Terre Bleue is a perfect expression of Yves Klein's fascination with the monochrome, the immaterial, space and nature. "In 1957, Klein stated that the Earth was entirely blue. It was on that occasion that he created a Blue Relief globe [...]. Four years later... cosmonaut Gagarin stated in April 1961 that the Earth is of a deep intense blue!!!" - Published in: Yves Klein le Monochrome, il nuovo realismo del colore (cat. d'exp.), Milan, Galleria Apollinaire, novembre 1961, n. p. Repris dans: Ledeur 2000, p. 245.
- Creator:Yves Klein (1928 - 1962, French)
- Creation Year:1988
- Dimensions:Height: 14.18 in (36 cm)Width: 8.47 in (21.5 cm)Depth: 7.68 in (19.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Geneva, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1502213942742
Yves Klein
French artist Yves Klein is best known for his trademark ultramarine pigment, which he patented as International Klein Blue in 1961. “Blue … is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not,” he said.
“All colors arouse specific ideas, while blue suggests at most the sea and the sky; and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
Starting in the mid-1950s, Klein made retinal blue monochrome paintings (which would prove cornerstones of Minimalism) and the pigment would also feature prominently in his Anthropometry paintings, for which Klein smeared nude women with blue pigment and used them as human brushes on canvas, sometimes in elaborate public performances. Klein's work anticipated Conceptual art, performance art and environmental art, as in his selling of portions of empty space to collectors. For The Void (1958), he presented an empty gallery as an artwork, wearing a white tie and tails to show visitors around the blank walls.
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