Card: Schule der Sensibilität, Gelsenkirchen 27. Marz ‘59

by Yves Klein

$1,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

4 pp. Folding card 148 x 105 mm. with paint sample to inside. Gelsenkirchen: 1958-59 . A very rare Yves Klein 1928-62 card bearing a sample of famous blue monochrome paint used for Gelsenkirchen’s Opera Theater, which was designed by architect Werner Ruhnau 1922-2015 . Klein and Ruhnau had met at Iris Clert’s Norbert Kricke exhibition in 1957, and the architect soon after proposed that Klein create large reliefs in the future theater’s

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