Editorial, 2022, Didier Semin
"Yves Paintings", by Didier Semin
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...