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LOT 059

Yves KLEIN

La Victoire de Samothrace

Detail

1962
Dry blue pigment in synthetic resin on plaster with a metal and stone base
Incised with the artist's initials, dated 62 and numbered on the underside of the base
50.5 × 25.0 × 26.0 cm (19⅞ × 9⅞ × 10¼ in.)
HC aside from ED. 175

Estimate

¥12,000,000 - 18,000,000

$106,200 - 159,300

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Provenance: Private Collection, New York/ Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art, September 9, 2008, lot.217

Condition: Generally in good condition. There are minor dusts in places.

Exhibited:
October, 1986 - January, 1987 "Yves Klein und seine Freunde" Gallery 44, Kaarst-Düsseldorf, Germany
April - May, 1989 "Une probabile umore dell'idea" Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy
June - September, 1994 "Yves Klein" Galerie Gimpel, London
November, 1994 - January, 1995 "Yves Klein" Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
April, 1997 "Mostra internazionale di arte contemporanea" Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Citta natura, Rome
June - September, 1997 "Engel, Legenden der Gegenwart" Kunsthalle, Vienna
October, 1999 "L'art, l'air et l'espace" Musée de l'air et de l'espace, Le Bourget, France
April - June, 2000 "Nice Movements - Contemporary French Art" Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
April, 2000 - January, 2001 "Yves Klein, La Vie, la vie elle-même qui est l'art absolu" Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice, France; Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
July - August, 2000 "Du Nouveau Réalisme à Supports Surfaces" Museu de arte de Macau, Macau
July - September, 2004 "Nel blu dipinto di blu Yves Klein" Flora Bigai, Pietrasanta, Italy
November, 2004 - June, 2007 "Marie Raymond - Yves Klein" Musée des Beaux Arts; Roanne, Musée Joseph Dechelette; Carcassonne, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Coblence, Museum Ludwig; LAAC Dunkerque, Angers, France
January - May, 2005 "Yves Klein" Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
February - March, 2005 "Yves Klein et Niki de Saint Phalle" Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
March, 2007 - January, 2008 "Nouveau Réalisme: Revolution des Alltäglichen" Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Paris
May - September 2009 "Yves Klein & Rotraut" Museo d'Arte & Sculture in Città, Lugano, Switzerland
October 2009 - January 2010 "Marie Raymond - Yves Klein Herencias" Circulo de Bellas Arte, Madrid
Summer 2012 "The Small Utopia, Ars Multiplicata" Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy
May - November, 2014 "Sculpture du Sud" Villa Datris, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
June - July, 2014 "Art in the Park" Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland
(another example exhibited for each)

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

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