작품 상세

IKB pigment and synthetic resin on sponge approx. 6 x 6 x 6 cm on metal support, total height approx. 17.5 cm. - Minor traces of age. With accompanying photo certificate from Rotraut Klein-Moquay, Paris, dated 11.07.2013. The present work is registered in the Archives-Yves-Klein, Paris, under the number SE 301. „It was also on this occasion that I discovered the sponge. While working on my paintings in the studio, I sometimes used sponges. Very quickly they obviously became blue! One day I noticed the beauty of the blue in the sponge; in an instant this working instrument became raw material for me. It is the sponge's extraordinary capacity to be impregnate itself with anything fluid that attracted me. Thanks to the wild living material of sponges, I was going to be able to do the portraits of the beholders of my monochromes, who, after having seen them, after having traveled through the blue of my paintings, come back totally impregnated in sensibility, like sponges." (Yves Klein quoted from www.yveskleinarchives.org) "It is the sponge's extraordinary capacity to impregnate itself with anything fluid that attracted me. Thanks to the wild living material of sponges, I was going to be able to do the portraits of the beholders of my monochromes, who, after having seen them, after having travelled through the blue of my paintings, come back totally impregnated in sensibility, like sponges." (Yves Klein, in: Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, exhib.cat. Museum Ludwig et al, Ostfildern 1994, p.165)