A Five Point-Guide to Yves Klein's Avant-Garde Oeuvre

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Italian writer and painter Dino Buzzati called Yves Klein ‘Imp’, ‘Puck’ and ‘Peter Pan’ after meeting him in Paris in 1957, where he fell victim to a characteristically surreal performance by the artist. Klein held a Plexiglas box filled with sheets of gold leaf, which he passed to Buzzati. He then wrote a receipt “for 20 grams of gold in payment for a zone of immaterial pictorial sensibility”. The two traded; Buzzati – as instructed – burnt the receipt, and Klein released…

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