Details
YVES KLEIN (1928-1962)
Petite Vénus Bleue
numbered '176/500' and stamped with the maker's mark (on the reverse)
bronze brooch painted with International Klein Blue, in a Plexiglas box with gold leaf
Brooch: 2 ½ x 1 in. (5.7 x 2.5 cm.)
Plexiglas box: 4 ¾ x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (12.2 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1956-1957, this work is number one hundred and seventy six from an edition of five hundred, plus one hundred artist's proofs, published by T.A.T Arts & Stephane Klein, Paris
Provenance
Éditions Dilecta, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
D. Venet, ed., From Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Milan and London, 2011 (another example illustrated p. 183).
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