Yves Klein

(French, 1928 - 1962)

Yves Klein was one of the most important French painters of the 1950s art scene. Both his father and his mother were painters in fact he began to paint from an early age. The main feature of the artist lies in the monochrome of the canvases. In the latter he uses pure pigments so as not to lose their luminosity when joining with the binder. For the artist it is not simply a technical aspect but much more because the chromatic purity represented a means to reach the soul. Over time he reduced his palette to a single color: blue. Klein despised conventional and traditionalist art and by critics he is considered the precursor of artistic currents such as body art and minimal art. He died of a heart attack in 1962 at the age of 34. The work in question was purchased in Amsterdam in the Netherlands directly by the owner of the well-known publishing house Blomena. & Nbsp;