1957 / 2024 based on Untitled Blue Plate (IKB 54) from 1957 earthenware plate with acrylic display box plate diameter: 23 cm or approx. 9" display box: 32 x 30 cm or approx. 12 1/2" x 11 3/4" edition of 1,000 plus 50 EA each (Artist Proofs) edition number engraved; design on verso Certificate of Authenticity included; individually boxed produced by Yves Klein Archive
$150 domestic flat rate; international rates determined at checkout
This limited edition plate is based on Klein's original work from 1957 and produced by Yves Klein Archives. Acylic display box is included.
The Untitled Blue Plate, (IKB 54), was executed in 1957 at a pivotal moment in Yves Klein’s career, the same year in which he perfected the production of the color-matter that he would call IKB (International Klein Blue), characteristic of the works of his “Époque bleue” and which would become his signature and the vehicle for his quest for the immaterial. This IKB applied to earthenware emanates a palpable cosmic energy, the experience of infinite freedom. Yves Klein took care to paint the edge to reinforce the diffusion of the pure colour.
1,000 copies numbered from 1/1,000 to 1,000/1,000
50 copies numbered from EA 1/50 to EA 50/50
Copies made in ceramic with the support of the Yves Klein Foundation.
“The composition, even the texture of my paintings, is texture of the pictorial matter; it must be highly effaced, intensely worked, strong, and serious, in order to permit the display in all its splendor, color.”
