People talk about art as a healing force, but New York dealer Brett Gorvy is very literal on that, at least in the case of a particular work by one of the giants of postwar art, Yves Klein. Organized ...

THINK OF THE FRENCH artist Yves Klein, and the mind first leaps to International Klein Blue, or IKB, the intense ultramarine and resin mixture he dreamed up in 1956 and patented in 1960. Next come his ...

Yves Klein made one thing clear in his 34 brief years on this Earth: Blue was his everything. “Blue has no dimensions,” the French artist, who was born on April 28, 1928, once declared. “It is beyond ...

Three ambitious young men (two of whom would become major artists), lounging on a beach in Nice during the summer of 1947, divided up the world. Armand Pierre Fernandez (whom the art world would later ...

A receipt granting ownership of an “invisible work of art” by famed French postwar artist Yves Klein will go under the hammer next month for as much as $550,000, according to Sotheby’s Paris, which ...

The fair’s autumnal edition, devoted to overlooked or under-recognised bodies of work from the previous century, is taking over Sotheby’s headquarters ...

Yves Klein's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 36,637,718 USD for sculptures, and 36,482,500 USD for paintings. In the past 12 months, his paintings have ...

Last Wednesday, the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church was filled with an unlikely congregation of strangers: from art insiders to the media-savvy lucky enough to snag a ticket to Yves Klein’s ...

Yves Klein's "Jonathan Swift" stands alongside the Blenheim Palace's collection of Old Master portraits Blenheim Art Foundation Yves Klein's "Pure Pigment" installation at Blenheim Palace Courtesy of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I was walking past a gallery in Düsseldorf in 1957 when I saw a blue monochrome painting in the window. I ...

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