Live Auction 10420First Open / LDN
Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Lot 64

Yves Klein (1928-1962)

Table rose

Closed26 March 2015

Price Realised

GBP 22,500

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Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Table rose
This table is part of an edition begun in 1963 under the supervision of Rotraut Klein-Moquay based on a model by Yves Klein and is accompanied by a plaque signed R. Klein-Moquay’ and numbered ‘ND RE-US’ (on a label affixed to the underside)
pigment, Plexiglas, glass and stainless steel
14 ¼ x 39 5/8 x 49 ¼in. (36.8 x 100.3 x 125.1cm.)
Executed circa 1970

Galerie Guy Pieters, Knokke-Heist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘Yves chooses madder rose … Having thus acquired the third element, Yves Klein, can, from now on, present the cosmological trilogy of personal transmutation of colours: ultramarineblue IKB, gold, and pink… The transfer to monopink in the monochrome trilogy is revealing. Madder rose represents the Holy Spirit before the gold of the Father and the blue of the Son; gold for immateriality and blue for sensibility’ (P. Restany, Fire at the Heart of the Void, New York 2005, pp. 24-26).