The Blue Stamp of Yves Klein 6-31 January 1996

by Yves Klein

$400 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Black & white illus. Title-leaf, perforated sheet of blue waxed paper, 30 pp. 4to, gold craft paper covers with imitation blue stamp adhered to upper cover, plastic spiral-bound. San Francisco: Stamp Art Gallery, 1996. Rare Stamp Art Gallery exhibition catalogue on Yves Klein’s famous painted Timbre bleu. Several sympathetic imitations and homages to the stamp are cleverly placed on and in the catalogue. There is an essay by John Held, Jr.

• Binding: Spiral-bound

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