In a discerning market, only the rarest will do this – and that’s the main goods Christie will sell in Paris next month. The house has received 14-foot-wide Yves Klein paintings, the largest format the artist has made in his iconic pigment International Klein Blue (IKB), and is estimated at 16 million to 25 million euros ($18 million to $290 million) on request.
California (IKB 71) One of the few Kleins with the title, he named after the state, which he demonstrated shortly after the work he completed in 1961. Paris-based Klein visited the United States only once, when he visited his longtime supporter Virginia Dwan, the owner of the legendary Los Galles. But there is an extra chapter in the source of the painting, Christie teamed up with the recently discovered Yves Klein Foundation: On the way from Paris to California, it stopped in New York, and appeared in New York with dealer Leo Castelli. Klein died in 1962 at the age of 34 after his career at Tornado.
“This is this grand destination,” said Christie’s Vice-Chairman of Arts in 20/21st Century. The only larger format in IKB is a set of murals he painted for the German opera house Musiktheater Im Revier Gelsenkirchen in the late 1950s. Arnold observed that the color was “a little bit of the sea, a little bit of the sky, the kind of blue klein he would see in California would remember from southern France…. Here is a museum-quality picture. She said she hoped it would be given to an institution.
California (IKB 71) It has been in the New York collection since 2005, when it was owned by Swiss collector George Marci. The work was conducted on a long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2005 to 2008, and was the last publicly carried out.
Christie won’t comment on shippers, but Art world insiders familiar with this work Artnews It comes from the collection of former co-tech chair George David, whose company backed the Metropolitan Exhibition at the time, including performances by Van Gogh and Jasper Johns. David could not be contacted for comment at press time.
Klein will sell “inclusive thinking of Italian” “avan” on October 23 at Christie in Paris on October 23.
