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Yves Klein Untitled Blue Monochrome (IKB-82) 1959 pigment in synthetic resin on panel Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Yves Klein Untitled Red Monochrome (M-63) 1959 pigment in synthetic resin on panel Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Charles Wilp Yves Klein painting a Mural Gelsenkirchen Opera House 1959 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Charles Wilp Yves Klein painting a Mural Gelsenkirchen Opera House 1959 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Charles Wilp Yves Klein painting a Mural Gelsenkirchen Opera House 1959 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Yves Klein Anthropometrie 1960 pigment in synthetic resin on paper, mounted on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Yves Klein Requiem (RE-20) 1960 pigment in synthetic resin over sponges and pebbles, mounted on panel Menil Collection, Houston |
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Harry Shunk Yves Klein saut dans la vide, Paris 1960 gelatin silver print Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Georges Véron Yves Klein painting with Fire after 1961 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Anonymous Photographer Yves Klein with his Mur de Feu at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld 1961 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Yves Klein Le Monochrome at Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles 1961 offset print (exhibition announcement) Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Yves Klein Mondo Cane Shroud 1961 pigment in synthetic resin on gauze Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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Yves Klein Untitled Monogold (MG-24) 1961 gold leaf on panel Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Yves Klein Monochrome Blue (YKB-73) 1961 pigment in synthetic resin on panel Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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Yves Klein Anthropometrie 1962 oil on paper Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Yves Klein Portrait Relief (PR-3) 1962 painted bronze relief mounted on gilded panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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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)