Yves Klein
Klein, Yves. Wember, Paul
Cologne. Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg. 1969
A superlative copy of the scarce catalogue raisonné of Yves Klein's works.
From the edition limited to 1,000 copies.
This superlative copy of the catalogue raisonné of Yves Klein's work retains the original dust-jacket (in excellent condition) and gold card slipcase (with some restoration). The catalogue raisonné which remains the indispensable reference for Klein's oeuvre analyses the artist's work and techniques and is divided into the following sections: 'Monogold'; 'Schwammreliefs'; 'Schwammplastiken'; 'Plastiken'; 'Anthropometrien'; 'Körperabdrücke auf Tuchern'; 'Cosmogonien'; 'Feuerbilder'; 'Feuer-Farb-Bilder'; 'Planetarische Reliefs'; 'Porträtreliefs'; 'Abdrücke von Werken Armans'; 'Immaterieller Raum'; 'Zeichnungen'.
From the edition limited to 1,000 copies.
This superlative copy of the catalogue raisonné of Yves Klein's work retains the original dust-jacket (in excellent condition) and gold card slipcase (with some restoration). The catalogue raisonné which remains the indispensable reference for Klein's oeuvre analyses the artist's work and techniques and is divided into the following sections: 'Monogold'; 'Schwammreliefs'; 'Schwammplastiken'; 'Plastiken'; 'Anthropometrien'; 'Körperabdrücke auf Tuchern'; 'Cosmogonien'; 'Feuerbilder'; 'Feuer-Farb-Bilder'; 'Planetarische Reliefs'; 'Porträtreliefs'; 'Abdrücke von Werken Armans'; 'Immaterieller Raum'; 'Zeichnungen'.
pp. 147. 4to. (330 x 250 mm). Leaf with monochrome photographic portrait frontispiece recto, imprint and limitation verso, title with publication details verso, 'Inhalt' with facsimile of a Klein manuscript verso, Paul Wember's 'Vorwort' and printed text in German throughout illustrated with 15 tipped-in colour illustrations (several with multiple works), 12 full-page monochrome plates and over 700 monochrome vignette illustrations of works by Klein, final leaves with exhibition history, bibliography and indices; text and tipped-in plates on thick wove paper, monochrome vignette illustrations on glossy paper as issued. Original publisher's blue cloth, title to spine in white, reproduction of Klein's signature to front board in white, scarlet endpapers, original blue printed dust-jacket reproducing a work by Klein with titles in white, interior flaps with printed texts, thin gold card slipcase.
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