Yves Klein, SE 161, Executed in 1959

Yves Klein, SE 161, Executed in 1959. photo courtesy Philips de Pury & Co

Sponge, stone and metal. height: 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm).  Signed with initials and dated ‘YK 59’ (on the stone).

ESTIMATE $700,000-900,000

PROVENANCE Galerie Iris Clert, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Brown, Springfield, Massachusetts; Gianna Sistu, Paris; Claude Berri, Paris

EXHIBITED Paris, Galerie Iris Clert, Yves Klein – la forêt d’èponges et les basreliefs monochromes, June 15 – 30, 1959; New York, The Jewish Museum, Yves Klein, January – March 1967 (illustrated); Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Yves Klein – Der Sprung ins Leere, November 8, 1994 – January 8, 1995, pp. 161 and 164 (illustrated)

LITERATURE P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 92 (illustrated)

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