• Yves Klein and the Blue Globe (RP 7)

Photo, 1961

Yves Klein and the Blue Globe (RP 7)

Yves Klein and the Blue globe!
1957.
... In 1957, Yves Klein declared that the whole earth was Blue.
To mark the occasion, he created a terrestrial globe in I.K.B. Blue Relief and levitated it in space off its base and axis to give it a better look... 4 years later... astronaut Gagarin declared in April 1961: ‘The terrestrial globe is an intense, deep blue!
Place 14, rue Campagne-Première, Paris, France
Author Harry Shunk-Janos Kender