Germann Auctionhouse Zurich
Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors and Drawings
Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 07:00 pm

Yves Klein, La Vénus d'Alexandrie (Vénus Bleue), 1982

Lot 40

Yves Klein, 1928-1962 (FR)

La Vénus d'Alexandrie (Vénus Bleue), 1982

Blue pigement on synthetic resin cast.

H 680 mm.

CHF30'000 / 40'000
EUR26'000 / 35'000
USD32'000 / 43'000

Hammer Price: CHF 28'000

Annotation:

On the bottom: 81/300. Edition signature stamp.
On the right leg again numbered.

Provenance: Galerie Bonnier, Genève;
Swiss private property.

Literature: P. Wember. Yves Klein, Catalogue Raisonné.
Cologne, DuMont, 1969. No. S41 (illustration of a plaster cast);
P. Restany. Yves Klein. Paris, 1982.
No. S41 (illustration of a different cast, page 204);
S. Stich. Yves Klein. Stuttgart, 1994.
Page 247 (illustration of a different cast);
J.-P. Ledeur. Yves Klein, catalogue des éditions et des sculptures éditées. Paris, 2000.
No. S41, pages 234-241 (color illustration of a different cast, page 234).

With it: Original gloves of the Galerie Bonnier, Genève.
Annotation: This work was executed in 1962 in relaltion to the sculpture "Aphrodite de Cnide", which islocated at the Louvre.