KLEIN

Yves Klein (1928-1962) conquered the world of art, declaring that "a newworld calls for a new man". His idiosyncratic style and huge charisma sethim on a youthful career in the great art capital, Paris. Soon his famousblue pictures, large-format canvases conceived as spaces for meditation,were making him a name far beyond France. In a short but intense creativelife of just seven years, Klein painted over a thousand pictures which areamong the classics of modern art. This book offers a sample of his work.