KLEIN, YVES
1928 Nice - 1962 Paris

Title: Monochrome Rouge (M66).
Date: 1957.
Technique: Mixed media on beaverboard.
Measurement: 18 x 12cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and dated verso centre: YK (artist's signet) 57.
Frame/Pedestal: Display case.


Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Ledeur, Jean-Paul (ed.): Yves Klein - Catalogue raisonné des éditions et sculptures éditées, Knokke-Le-Zoute, 2000, cat. rais. no. M66


- Beautiful, small monochrome work that reflects Klein's approach of absolute abstraction and immateriality
- Privately owned for decades and offered on the art market for the first time
- Klein exhibited in Germany for the first time at the Alfred Schmela Gallery in Düsseldorf in 1957
- Yves Klein regards the colour red as a "psychological space" that radiates fire and heatindly confirming the authenticity of this work.