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Description: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE ALFRED OTTO MÜLLER, COLOGNE

1928-1962
UNTITLED (IKB 114)

measurements
80 by 29.5cm.

alternate measurements
31 1/8 by 11 5/8 in.

signed, dated 57 and stamped with the star on the reverse; stamped twice with the star on the overlap

dry pigment and synthetic resin on canvas

PROVENANCE

Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf
Acquired directly from the above by Alfred Otto Müller in the 1960s

LITERATURE

Paul Wember, Yves Klein: Werkverzeichnis, Biographie, Bibliographie, Ausstellungsverzeichnis, Cologne 1969, p. 74, no. IKB 114

NOTE

Blue has no dimensions. It is beyond dimensions while other colours are not... I consecrated myself to finding the most perfect expression of blue."
Yves Klein cited in Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, yves Klein, 1928-1962, 1982, p. 245