1961
Edition Size: Limited edition
Dimensions: 37.5 x 100 x 126 cm
Signed
Condition: Pristine
3,000 sheets of 22-karat gold leaf, glass, plexiglass, wood, and steel – This work is from an edition begun in 1963 under the supervision of Rotraut Klein-Moquay based on a model by Yves Klein – Signed R. Moquay and numbered on a label affixed to the underside
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Yves Klein was a French painter considered to be a forefather of the Nouveau Realisme art movement. Klein is famous for creating Monochrome works, solid, single color paint on a canvas, devoid of any design or depictions. Some of Klein’s famous pieces include RE 46, which Yves Klein completed in 1960 and the 1962 work IKB 191. In 2006, RE 46 became among the top five highest grossing pieces sold by Christie’s, the Manhattan-based Auction House in the post World War II era. The Monochrome style was controversial to some, but Yves Klein maintained his reason for creating such work was to encourage those who viewed it to draw their own conclusions about what it was about, or the emotions it attempted to evoke.
