Yves Klein

Mme. Philippe Durand-Ruel, Paris 

Marianne and Pierre Nahon, Paris 

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Beyersdorf, Geneva 

L&M Arts, New York

Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above in 2006)

Sotheby's, London, 30 June 2014, lot 16 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; London, Hayward Gallery; and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Yves Klein, November 1994 – August 1995, no. 105, p. 229, illustrated in colour

Basel, Musée Jean Tinguely, Tinguely's Favourites: Yves Klein, December 1999 – April 2000, p. 91, illustrated in colour

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; and Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Yves Klein, September 2004 – May 2005, no. 85, p. 175, illustrated in colour

New York, L&M Arts, Yves Klein: A Career Survey, October – December 2005, no. 31, p. 81, illustrated in colour

Liverpool, Tate Liverpool; and Brussels, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Yves Klein: Theatre of the Void, October 2016 – August 2017

Paul Wember, Yves Klein: Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne 1969, no. FC 28, p. 136, illustrated

Christophe Domino, "Yves Klein: Rhapsody in Blue," Beaux Arts, no. 129, December 1994, p. 74, illustrated in colour (in reverse)

Aphrodite Georgiou, "Yves Klein: Blue Like Star Dust Everywhere," The Art Magazine, 15 February 1995, p. 36, illustrated in colour

Pascale Le Thorel, Petit dictionnaire des artistes contemporains, Paris 2000, n.p., illustrated in colour on the front cover

Pierre Restany, Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void, Washington 2005, p. 55 (text)

Pierre Nahon, L'Histoire de la Galerie Beaubourg, III 1994-2009, Paris 2009, pp. 110-11, illustrated in colour (installation view)

Carol Vogel, “Bacon Painting Sets Pace for Auctions in London,” The New York Times, 1 July 2014, p. C3 (text)