Yves Klein, Untitled pink monochrome (MP5) 1957
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2400000 SEK
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Beskrivning
YVES KLEIN
France 1928-1962
Untitled pink monochrome, (MP 5) 1957
Pigment on paper, 36 x 58 cm.
Executed 1957
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PROVENANCE
Galerie Bonnier, Genève, No 1832
IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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EXHIBITED
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm May 1963, catalogue No 12
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LITERATURE
Paul Wember: Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, page
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Stockholms Auktionsverk is grateful to Yves Klein Archives in Paris for their valuable assistance concerning this work.
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Yves Klein was the mystic, the spiritualist and the conceptualist with the vision to express the immaterial and the endless through colour. His oeuvre represents one of the most significant responses to single-colour painting - the monochrome style - during the 1900s. Klein introduced ideas about how painting no longer had to do with interpretation on a canvas, but rather about the creation of the painting in and of itself. He expressed this through painting, installations, performance art and conceptual, interactive works. His eclectic artistry and varied methods of expressing same have been inspiring generations of artists ever since.
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Klein never took any formal training, but grew up in a creative home where both parents were artists. His family lived in Paris, but he spent his summers in Cagnes-sur-Mer with his aunt. At a nearby judo club, he made the acquaintance of the poet Claude Pascal and the burgeoning sculptor Armand Fernandez (Arman). United by shared enthusiasm for physical training, they considered judo to provide an almost spiritual perception of space. Sitting together on a beach in Nice, the three friends divided the world between them: Arman was awarded the material world, Pascal was accorded the air, and Klein was presented with the endless space of the heavens. This symbolic division became a flashpoint for Klein in his aspiration, and he segued into a realistic/imaginary daydream through the empty universe where he claims to have etched his name.
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He then incorporated his insight about the empty space into his artistic experiments. In 1949 he createdThe Monotone-Silence Symphony,a work consisting of a single chord followed by meditative silence. The composition symbolised the sound from the blue heavens or the empty space:Le Vide.However, his ideas also found fertile ground in painting compositions. In The manifesto for the monochromefrom 1953, he declared monochrome to be an open window onto freedom. Klein´s ambition was to stimulate feelings and sensations without depending on lines, figures or abstract symbols, and he believed that pure colour liberated the painting from its materiality. Klein decided to carry his monochrome painting even further, and formulated the ultramarine colourInternational Klein Blue(IKB) that was to signify his artistic oeuvre.
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At the exhibition entitledLe Videheld at Clert Gallery in 1958, Klein elevated the concept of the immaterial to an even higher level when he presented an empty gallery painted white. During the exhibition´s run, more than 3,000 people queued up to view the emptied space. In addition to being an experiment on conventions and rituals, the exhibition was a sincere investigation of the possibilities of the abstract, exceeding the worldly.
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In his performance pieceZones of Immaterial Pictoral Sensibilityfrom 1959-1962, Klein offered empty plots in the city in exchange for gold. He wanted to share an experience ofLe Vide, something which, in his view, could only be purchased for gold - the purest material. In another act of the performance piece, the purchaser was to burn his certificate of ownership while Klein himself threw half of the gold into the River Seine. He used the other half to create his gilded works. In Klein´s eyes, clear ties existed between gold, blue and pink, and together, these colours created the flow between the transient material world and the spiritual state. The colours created a ´holy trinity´, where Monoblue represented the endless, Monogold spirituality and Monopink love.
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Having been awarded a major interpretation commission for Gelsenkirchen Opera in Germany, Klein celebrated with a trip to Cascia in Italy, where he placed himself ex votoin the monastery dedicated to St. Rita, patroness of impossible causes. His votive offering took the form of a small transparent box holding three containers which he filled with gold, IKB and pink pigment.
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Klein´s ambitions surpassed the conventional parameters of art, and his objective was to use his painting to express the perception of sensory space. The pink colour that he used in his paintings, drawings and objects carried a significant symbolic meaning for Klein. The Monopink work presented at this auction is unusual in that Klein used a paintbrush rather than a roller, which was his preferred method of application. Klein´s oeuvre comprises around fifty Monopinks on paper or canvas, which he painted in the period 1956-1962.
Auktionsnummer:
18
Datum:
2016-11-15