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Yves Klein

L'ours Pompon édition Yves Klein

2022

Resin

25 × 40 × 15 cm

Ed. /999

Location: Clichy, France

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9,940 € 9940.0 EUR 9,940 €

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About the artwork

The collaboration between the Fondation Yves Klein and the Archives François Pompon has given birth to an emblematic piece: L'Ours Pompon, fusing the work of two great artists, François Pompon and Yves Klein. The piece is based on François Pompon's L'Ours Blanc, a giant cast-iron polar bear sculpture first presented at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1922. The artist created this bear several times using different materials, the most famous of which was created in stone and can be seen at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This sculpture after Pompon was then covered with Klein blue, the same matte texture as the paint the artist had applied in 1960 under IKB (International Klein Blue), which he used in most of his works.

Expert opinion

This edition was produced 100 years after Pompon's Bear was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1922.

About the artist

Born in Nice in 1928, Yves Klein lived and worked in France until his death in 1962. In 1954, he turned definitively to art and began his "Monochrome Adventure". Driven by the idea of "liberating color from the prison of line", Yves Klein turned to monochromy as the only way of painting that allowed him to "see what the absolute had in visible form". Favoring the expression of sensibility over figuration in form, Yves Klein goes beyond all artistic representation and sees the work of art as the trace of the artist's communication with the world. Invisible reality becomes visible. His works are "the ashes of his art". His blue, patented as International Klein Blue, becomes a trademark and a vehicle for pure sensation. His works have been exhibited in major international institutions such as the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris (2020-2021), Blenheim Palace in the UK (2018), the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. (2010) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2006-2007).

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