Article, 2009, Denys Riout
Work's value: "Credit via the market"
Besides the monochrome pictures, the anthropometries, the fire paintings, and many other projects that pertain to the realm of the visible, Yves Klein executed, exhibited, and sold some “invisible” works. I would like to show that these sales pertain to a strategy that was designed to establish their credibility, the principle of which is simple: since they are offered on the art market and since they find buyers, these impalpable creations fully exist and really do possess the status of...