Live Auction 14996Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Lot 699

Yves Klein (1928-1962)

Venus Bleue, (S 41)

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 143,750

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Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Venus Bleue, (S 41)
numbered 'HC V/L' on the reverse
dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster
27 1/8 x 12 ½ x 9 7/8 in. (69.5 x 30 x 20 cm.)
Conceived in 1962. Executed posthumously in 1982 by the Bonnier Gallery, Geneva, this work is hors-commerce number V from an edition of 300, plus 50 hors-commerce numbered I/L to L/L and 3 copies numbered 001 to 003.

The Collection of Aviva & Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Paris
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 December 2016, lot 11
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

'It was the block of the body itself, that is to say the trunk and part of the thighs, that fascinated me. The hands, the arms, the head, the legs were of no importance. Only the body is alive, all-powerful, and non-thinking. The head, the arms, the hands are only intellectual articulations around the bulk of flesh that is the body! The heart beats without thought on our part; the mind cannot stop it.’ (Y. Klein quoted in S. Stich, Yves Klein, Ostfildern 1994, p. 175).