Article, 2017, Denys Riout
From judo to pictorial sensitivity
Yves Klein, born in 1928, grew up in an artistic environment. His father, Fred Klein, a figurative painter, and his mother, Marie Raymond, soon to be known as an abstract painter, frequented many avant-garde figures. The young man, faced with the challenge of becoming a painter without having to choose between his mother's side and his father's tradition, hesitated between several other paths. In 1947, after having given up on a career in the merchant navy, he worked in a shop in Nice where his...