Fascinated with cosmology, spirituality, space and nothing but the sensual, Yves Klein charted his own unique, path, achieving immortality. Yves Klein, Ant 50, 1960. Synthetic resin and lipstick on ...

A blue monochrome by French artist Yves Klein sold for 18.4 million euros (more than $21 million) on Thursday, auction house Christie's said, the most a Klein painting has ever sold for in France.

Meet an artist who invented his own color; painted with fire and smoke, water and wind; raced cockroaches in his spare time; and dressed as a knight at his wedding. Gilberti’s funny and delightful ...

Yves Klein was a French Conceptual artist with a wide-ranging and highly influential practice. Perhaps best remembered for his creation of a vivid shade of blue, he began creating his monochrome ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1635): This could hardly be anything other than a Blue Monochrome by Yves Klein, this one an iteration from 1960 that was acquired by the American dealer Virginia Dwan, out of the ...

He sells his first 'zones de sensibilite picturale immatrielle' at the prix of 20 grams of fine gold: the buyer received a certificate of property conceived and signed by Yves Klein. The gold powder ...

On a late afternoon walk along the banks of the Seine in the summer of 1912, Jacques Guerlain was so inspired by the twilight—or the moment when, as he said, “the night has not yet found its ...