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Materials:

dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster with metal and stone base

Measurements:

19.75 in. (50.17 cm.) (height) by 10.25 in. (26.03 cm.) (width) by 11.75 in. (29.85 cm.) (width)

Edition:

30 A of 175 + 25 HC + 25 AP and 3 copies with specific identifications.

Description:

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Markings:

incised with the artist's initials and date 62 on backside of the right wing; numbered 30A/175 on the backside of the figure; numbered 30A/175 on the underside

Exhibited:

Kaarst-Düsseldorf, Gallery 44, . Yves Klein und seine Freunde , October 1986 - January 1987 (another example exhibited) . Parma, Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, . Une probabile umore dell'idea , April - May 1989, p. 33, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . London, Galerie Gimpel, . Yves Klein , June - September 1994 (another example exhibited) . Cologne, Museum Ludwig, . Yves Klein , November 1994 - January 1995, cat. no. 112, p. 247, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Citta natura, . Mostra internazionale di arte contemporanea , April 1997 (another example exhibited) . Vienna, Kunsthalle, . Engel, Legenden der Gegenwart , June - September 1997, p. 221, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Le Bourget, Musée de l'air et de l'espace, . L'art, l'air et l'espace , October 1999 (another example exhibited) . Hong Kong Museum of Art, . Nice Movements - Contemporary French Art , April - June 2000, p. 64, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice; Prato, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, . Yves Klein, La Vie, la vie elle-même qui est l'art absolu , April 2000 - January 2001, p. 182, illustrated in color (another example exhibited). Museu de arte de Macau, . Du Nouveau Réalisme à Supports Surfaces , July - August 2000, p. 89, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Pietrasanta, Flora Bigai, . Nel blu dipinto di blu Yves Klein , July - September 2004, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Angers, Musée des Beaux Arts; Roanne, Musée Joseph Dechelette; Carcassonne, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Coblence, Museum Ludwig; LAAC Dunkerque, . Marie Raymond - Yves Klein , November 2004 - June 2007, p. 175, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, . Yves Klein , January - May 2005 (another example exhibited) . Paris, Galerie Rive Gauche, . Yves Klein et Niki de Saint Phalle , February - March 2005 (another example exhibited) . Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Hannover, Sprengel Museum, . Nouveau Réalisme: Revolution des Alltäglichen , March 2007 - January 2008 (another example exhibited) . Lugano, Museo d'Arte & Sculture in Città, . Yves Klein & Rotraut , May - September 2009, pp. 178-179, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Arte, . Marie Raymond - Yves Klein Herencias , October 2009 - January 2010, p. 160, illlustrated in color (another example exhibited) . Venice, Ca' Corner della Regina, . The Small Utopia, Ars Multiplicata , Summer 2012 (another example exhibited). Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Villa Datris, . Sculpture du Sud , May - November 2014 (another example exhibited) . Zurich, Hotel Baur au Lac, . Art in the Park , June - July 2014 (another example exhibited

Literature:

Exh. Cat., New York, Jewish Museum, . Yves Klein , 1967, p. 51, illustrated . Paul Wember, . Yves Klein , Cologne, 1969, cat. no. S9 . Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, . Yves Klein , 1983, n.p., illustrated in color . Exh. Cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, . Katalog zur Ausstellung , 1984, p. 107, illustrated . Exh. Cat., Paris, Artcurial, . Hommage au Président Georges Pompidou un homme de culture , 1987, p. 28, illustrated in color . Veronique Prat, . Douze ans de l'histoire d'Artcurial , Paris 1987, n.p., illustrated in color . Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, . Premier volet des collections , p. 11, illustrated in color . Claude Fournet, . Musées de Nice - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Paris, 1990, p. 31, illustrated in color . Claude Fournet and Jacqueline Péglion, eds., . Chroniques niçoises - Genèse d'un Musée , Nice 1991, n.p. . Sidra Stich, . Yves Klein , Ostfildern-Ruit, 1994, p. 247, illustrated in color . Gilles-François Picard, "Yves Klein ou la Révolution bleue," Paris, December 5, 1997, p. 104, illustrated . Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, . Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama , 1958-1968, 1998, n.p., illustrated in color . Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, . Yves Klein 1928-1962: A Retrospective , 1982, cat. no. 92, illustrated in color . Jean-Paul Ledeur, . Yves Klein: Catalogue raisonné des éditions, et sculptures éditées , Knokke-Le-Zoute 2000, cat. no. S9 . Nicholas Charlet, . Yves Klein , Paris 2000, p. 231, illustrated in color . Marco Livingstone, . Pop Art , Paris 2000, p. 54, illustrated in color . Hannah Weitermeier, . Yves Klein, 1928-1962: International Klein Blue , London 2001, p. 2, illustrated in color . Janny Lumeau, . Des mots bleus por "Klein le monochrome ," France 2003, illustrated in color on the cover . Véronique Prat, . La Collection de Georges et Claude Pompidou , Paris 2004, p. 81, illustrated in color . Léo Pajon, . La Victoire de Samothrace, Paris 2005, p. 118, illustrated in color. Sandrine Andrews, . Yves Klein à la conquète de l'espace , Paris 2006, p. 26, illustrated in color . Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, . Le Nouveau Réalisme , 2007, p. 199, illustrated in color . Exh., Cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, . Kunst der Gegenwart/1960 bis 2007 , 2007, n.p. illustrated in color . Exh. Cat., Zurich, Galerie Gmurzynska, Yves Klein - The Venus Project, 2014, p. 34, illustrated in color . Giovanni Lista, "Les sculptures d'Yves Klein et le spatialisme de Lucio Fontana," Ligeia dossiers sur l'art, Paris, Vol. XXVII, No. 129-132, January - July 2014, p. 25, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Private Collection, Switzerland. Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in April 1997). Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2017