Source: National Archives & Historic Records of France
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Yves Klein 🇫🇷

Yves Klein (Known as "Yves le Monochrome")
Avant-Garde Artist, Master of Monochromes, Inventor of International Klein Blue (IKB)
Born Apr 28, 1928 🇫🇷 Nice, France
Passed Away Jun 06, 1962 Paris, France
Lifespan 34 years old
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"Blue has no dimensions; it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not. Blue is the color of the infinite."

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Radical French avant-garde artist and leader of the Nouveau Réalisme movement who patented International Klein Blue (IKB), conducted living brush Anthropometry performances, and famously leaped into the void.

Biographical Record

Son of painters in Nice, Klein was a fourth-degree black belt in judo who trained at the Kodokan Institute in Tokyo. In 1957, collaborating with a Parisian chemist, he patented International Klein Blue (IKB)—an ultramarine pigment suspended in synthetic resin that preserved intense chromatic radiance.

Klein staged historic conceptual breakthroughs: his 1958 exhibition The Void (Le Vide) presented an entirely empty white gallery; his 1960 Anthropometries used nude female models as 'living paintbrushes' pressing against canvases to the accompaniment of his Monotone Symphony; and his 1960 photomontage Leap into the Void showed him diving headlong from a rooftop.

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Final Resting Place

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La Colle-sur-Loup Communal Cemetery
La Colle-sur-Loup (Alpes-Maritimes), France
GPS: 43.6861, 7.1028
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