Yves Klein

Date/place of birth

April 28, 1928, Nice, France

Day/place of death

June 6, 1962, Paris, France

Yves Klein - biography

The French artist is one of the inventors of monochrome painting. The self-taught son of a painter and devout Catholic who intensively studied the esoteric Rosicrucian doctrine, judo and meditation, was not concerned with formal aspects and colour values in his monochrome pictures, but in conveying a spiritual-sublime experience. For this, he applied the paint – he patented his characteristic ultramarine blue (International Klein Blue IKB) in 1960 – not with the brush, which he dismissed as too ‘psychological’, but as much as possible indirectly, without touching the canvas. The uniformly powdery surface was intended to make the immaterial colour-energy tangible, to sensitise the viewer and convey them a meditative ‘infinite’ spatial experience.

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ArtistArtworkPrice (incl. premium)
Yves Klein Sculpture éponge bleue sans titre, (SE 328) €1.220.000
Yves Klein IKB 132 €483.600
Yves Klein Victoire de Samothrace €132.300
Yves Klein Untitled blue sponge sculpture (SE 324) €52.080
Yves Klein Ohne Titel €38.080
Yves Klein Vénus Bleue €38.080