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Klein Comes to New York

March 5, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Bloomberg’s Scott Reyburn gets an early look at Christie’s New York Contemporary sale lead lot, a $10m Yves Klein Anthropometrie painting that has been in the same collection for 10 years and is being sold because of the rising tide of Klein prices:

Klein’s 9-foot-wide “Anthropometrie” painting “ANT 93, Le Buffle” (“The Buffalo”) will be offered in Christie’s May 11 sale of contemporary art. The work was painted in the artist’s trademark “International Klein Blue” in 1960 and 1961 on paper, now laid down on canvas, using a naked female model as a “living brush” to create the image of a buffalo.Continue Reading

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