Live Auction 12153Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Lot 208 Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Yves Klein (1928-1962)

Victoire de Samothrace, (S 9)

Closed11 May 2016

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Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Victoire de Samothrace, (S 9)
incised with the artist's initials and dated 'YK 62' (on the proper right wing); numbered '24/175' (on the reverse); numbered again '24/175' (on the underside)
dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster with metal and stone base
19 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (49.2 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1973. This work is based on the unique sculpture executed in 1962. It is number twenty-four from an edition of one hundred and seventy-five plus twenty-five Épreuves d'Artistes, twenty-five Hors Commerces and three additional examples with specific identification, published by Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris.

Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1970s

Specialist note

“Such colors are human, even when there are outside of us, while forming an integral part of our personalities and of our interior lives; they are in this regard charged with all of our sentimental affectivity. What is so extraordinary about this is that, as we realize this, we are free, for color itself is free!” (Y. Klein, from The Monochrome Adventure: The Monochrome Epic, in K. Ottmann, Overcoming the Problematics of Art: The Writings of Yves Klein, New York, 2007, p. 142)