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Yves Klein

Table IKB®

Lot Closed

October 20, 06:06 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Yves Klein

Table IKB®


designed 1961

from an edition of 300

produced under the supervision of Rotraut Klein-Moquay, France

IKB pigment, Plexiglas, chrome-plated metal

with a plastic plaque signed R. Klein-Moquay, printed This table conforms/to Yves Klein's patent and numbered 08 ET-DOI

14 1/2 x 49 1/4 x 39 3/8 in. (36.8 by 125.7 by 101.5 cm)

Leslie Tonkonow Projects, New York

Private Collection

Phillips, New York, November 14, 2009, lot 41

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jean-Paul Ledeur, ed., Yves Klein: Catalogue raisonné des éditions et sculptures éditées, Knokke, 2000, p. 53

Barbara Bloemink and Joseph Cunningham, Design ≠ Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread, exh. cat., Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2004, p. 27, fig. 14

The present lot is from an edition begun in 1963 under the supervision of Rotraut Klein-Moquay based on a model by Yves Klein.