Yves Klein (French: [iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany .

2014年8月28日 · In a period of prodigious creativity lasting from 1954 to his death from a third heart attack at the age of 34 in 1962, Klein altered the course of Western art. He did so thanks to his commitment...

Yves Klein (French: [iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany.

Yves Klein was the most influential, prominent, and controversial French artist to emerge in the 1950s. He is remembered above all for his use of a single color, the rich shade of ultramarine that he made his own: International Klein Blue.

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Yves Klein was a French Conceptual artist with a wide-ranging and highly influential practice. View Yves Klein’s 2,561 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available sculpture, design, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.

2025年1月3日 · Yves Klein was born in Nice in 1928 to a family of artists. The future artist never studied painting, was interested in the secret society of Rosicrucians, and was a professional judoist.

Born in Nice, Yves Klein (French, 1928–1962) did not begin practicing art until he was 19, but was enormously productive before his early death. His initial efforts of monochrome canvases in different colors were abandoned for solely blue works in 1957, with his show Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch .

2017年1月9日 · As the story goes, Yves Klein’s love affair with the color blue began when the artist was seduced by the deep cerulean skies of the French Mediterranean. “He was obsessed by the luminosity of the blue sky in Nice,” Daniel Moquay, the manager of Klein’s archive and second husband to Klein’s widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay, told me over the ...

Over the course of his tragically brief life, Yves Klein produced one of the 20th century’s most radical and esoteric bodies of work. Fascinated by the colour blue, he believed that art had the power to reveal the mysterious void underpinning human existence.