Edited by the Gallery Bonnier, Geneva, realized by Jean-Paul Ledeur in Paris. Original artwork created in 1957, posthumous multiple from 1988, this work is number 262 from an edition of 300 plus 50 Hors Commerce. IKB dry pigment and synthetic resin on globe. 36 x 21,5 x 19,5 cm. Mounted under acrylic glass. Embossed with the star (on the base); numbered 250/300 (on a label affixed to the underside). 'Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions..All colors arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract' - Yves Klein - Literature: Jean-Paul Ledeur, Catalogue Raisonné des Editions et des Sculptures Editeés, Knokke Le Zoute, 2000, no. RP 7, p.242, illustrated - Provenance: Sotheby's Paris, 7 December 2017, lot 122; Acquired from the above sale by the present owner - Yves Klein is considered the most important protagonist of the European avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s. His name is primarily associated with his blue monochromes and his patented International Klein Blue (IKB). His diverse artistic output, which lasted only seven years due to his early death, ranges from painting, graphic art and sculpture to performative and conceptual art. K. received no formal training as a painter. He worked in London for a gilder, travelled to Japan to gain a degree in judo and was a member of the Rosicrucians. Art was initially only one of his many interests, but the intensity of colour, especially blue, was central from the start. This reduction of means, not only in executed works but also in his groundbreaking performances, found the greatest resonance in the art world and established his enduring standing. Mus.: Paris (Centre Pompidou), New York (MoMA), Nizza, Toulon a. others. Lit.: Vollmer, Bénézit, P. Wember: Y. K. Cat. rais. 1969 a. others.