Thursday, October 2, 2025

Yves Klein

Yves Klein
Untitled Blue Monochrome (IKB-82)
1959
pigment in synthetic resin on panel
Guggenheim Museum, New York


Yves Klein
Untitled Red Monochrome (M-63)
1959
pigment in synthetic resin on panel
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Charles Wilp
Yves Klein painting a Mural
Gelsenkirchen Opera House

1959
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Charles Wilp
Yves Klein painting a Mural
Gelsenkirchen Opera House

1959
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Charles Wilp
Yves Klein painting a Mural
Gelsenkirchen Opera House

1959
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Yves Klein
Anthropometrie
1960
pigment in synthetic resin on paper, mounted on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Yves Klein
Requiem (RE-20)
1960
pigment in synthetic resin
over sponges and pebbles, mounted on panel
Menil Collection, Houston

Harry Shunk
Yves Klein saut dans la vide, Paris
1960
gelatin silver print
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Georges Véron
Yves Klein painting with Fire
after 1961
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC 

Anonymous Photographer
Yves Klein with his Mur de Feu
at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld

1961
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Yves Klein
Le Monochrome at Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
1961
offset print (exhibition announcement)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Yves Klein
Mondo Cane Shroud
1961
pigment in synthetic resin on gauze
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Yves Klein
Untitled Monogold (MG-24)
1961
gold leaf on panel
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Yves Klein
Monochrome Blue (YKB-73)
1961
pigment in synthetic resin on panel
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Yves Klein
Anthropometrie
1962
oil on paper
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Yves Klein
Portrait Relief (PR-3)
1962
painted bronze relief mounted on gilded panel
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Yves Klein
Winged Victory of Samothrace
1962
painted plaster statuette on stone base
Kunsthalle Mannheim

from The Tragedie of Sophonisba

SYPHAX: 
Since heaven helpes not, deepest hell welle try.
Here in this desart the great soule of Charmes,
Dreadful Erichtho lives whose dismall brow,
Contemnes all roofes or civill coverture,
Forsaken graves and tombes the Ghosts forcd out,
She joyes to inhabit.
A loathsome yellowe leannessse spreades her face,
A heavy hell-like palenes loades hir cheekes
Unknowne to a cleare heaven: but if darke windes,
Or thick black cloudes drive back the blinded stars,
When her deep magicque makes forc'd heven quake
And thunder spite of Jove, Erichtho then
From naked graves stalkes out, heaves proud hir head,
With long unkemde haire loaden, and strives to snatch
The Night's quick sulphar: then she bursts up tombes
From half rot searcloths then she scrapes dry gummes
For hir black rites: but when she finds a corse
New gravd, whose entrailes yet not turne
To slymie filth with greedy havock then
She makes fierce spoile: and swells with wicked triumph
To bury hir leane knuckles in his eyes,
Then doeth she knaw the pale and or'egrowne nailes
From his dry hand: but if she find some life
Yet lurking close she bites his gelled lips,
And sticking her black tongue in his drie throat,
She breathes dire murmurs, which inforce him beare
Her banefull secrets to the spirits of horror.

– Lucan (AD 39-65), translated by John Marston (1606)