FINE ART INVESTMENTS SINCE 1978
CONTEMPORARY PRINTS
(after) Yves KLEIN
Title: "Monochrome Bleu (IKB 3)"
*Very rare
Year: 1989
Medium: Original Lithograph,
Exhibition Poster
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size: 39.5" x 27.5"
Image size: 29" x 22.5"
Price: SOLD
Yves Klein (28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war
European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau re´alisme founded in
1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an
inspiration to, and as a forerunner of, Minimal art, as well as Pop art.
Klein was born in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. His parents, Fred Klein and Marie
Raymond, were both painters. His father painted in a loose Post-Impressionist style, while his mother was a
leading figure in Art informel, and held regular soire´es with other leading practitioners of this Parisian
abstract movement.
From 1942 to 1946, Klein studied at the E´cole Nationale de la Marine Marchande and the E´cole Nationale des
Langues Orientales and began practicing judo. At this time, he became friends with Arman (Armand
Fernandez) and Claude Pascal and started to paint. At the age of nineteen, Klein and his friends lay on a beach
in the south of France, and divided the world between themselves; Arman chose the earth, Pascal, words,
while Klein chose the ethereal space surrounding the planet, which he then proceeded to sign:
With this famous symbolic gesture of signing the sky, Klein had foreseen, as in a reverie, the thrust of his art
from that time onwards—a quest to reach the far side of the infinite.
Between 1947 and 1948, Klein conceived his Monotone Symphony (1949, formally Monotone Silence
Symphony) that consisted of a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute silence – a
precedent to both La Monte Young's drone music and John Cage's 4'33?.[citation needed] During the years
1948 to 1952, he traveled to Italy, Great Britain, Spain, and Japan. In Japan, at the age of 25, he became a
master at judo receiving the rank of yodan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan, which at that time
was a remarkable achievement for a westerner. He also stayed in Japan in 1953. Klein later wrote a book on
Judo called Les Fondements du judo. In 1954, Klein settled permanently in Paris and began in earnest to
establish himself in the art world.
Title: "Moderna Museet, Alla Dagar"
*Extremely rare
Circa: 1975
Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph,
Exhibition Poster
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size: 39.5" x 27.5"
Price: SOLD
Title: "RE 19 (Relief Eponge Bleu)"
Circa: 1990
Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph,
Exhibition Poster
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size: 31.75" x 21.75"
Image size: 24" x 18"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Galerie Karl Flinker (Anthropometry)"
*Very rare
Year: 1973
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition
Poster
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size: 36.5" x 21.5"
Image size: 29.25" x 20.75"
Price: $1,400
ORIGINAL POSTERS
Title: "Le Printemps des Poètes (Portrait
Relief d'Arman)"
*Very rare
Year: 2015
Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Poster
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size: 22.75" x 17"
Image size: 21.75" x 17"
Price: SOLD
Title: "Galerie Karl Flinker
(Peintures de Feu)"
*Extremely rare
Year: 1976
Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph,
Exhibition Poster
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size: 30.75" x 19.75"
Price: $600
GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer:
Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The
examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their
respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its
respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters.