Article, 2022, Didier Semin
A look at "Yves Peintures" [Yves Paintings]
Yves Klein's very first works were fictional catalogues, produced in 1954 with the help of Fernando Franco de Sarabia (a friend of Klein's father who worked as a printer in Madrid, where he had enabled the artist to teach judo that year): Yves, peintures and Haguenault, peintures.As we know, these are two booklets of fine paper, folded into pages measuring around 25 × 20 cm, on which are pasted ten rectangles of tinted paper, of different colours and proportions, sometimes with a handwritten...