French artist Yves Klein is best known for his trademark ultramarine pigment, which he patented as International Klein Blue in 1961. “Blue … is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not,” he said.
“All colors arouse specific ideas, while blue suggests at most the sea and the sky; and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
Starting in the mid-1950s, Klein made retinal blue monochrome paintings (which would prove cornerstones of Minimalism) and the pigment would also feature prominently in his Anthropometry paintings, for which Klein smeared nude women with blue pigment and used them as human brushes on canvas, sometimes in elaborate public performances. Klein's work anticipated Conceptual art, performance art and environmental art, as in his selling of portions of empty space to collectors. For The Void (1958), he presented an empty gallery as an artwork, wearing a white tie and tails to show visitors around the blank walls.
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Anthropometrie ANT 148
By Yves Klein
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprint on heavy white wove archival paper. Edition of 200. Printed by l'Atelier Eric Linard, Paris. Published by Editions T.A.T Arts, Paris, with the printed justificat...
Screen, Color
Anthropométrie (ANT 83)
By Yves Klein
Located in New York, NY
Color lithograph on Rives BFK, 2001. Proof, aside from the numbered edition of 200 . With the artist's estate ink stamp, verso. Published by Editions T.A.T. Arts, Paris. The sheet ...
Lithograph
Yves Klein Monogold Coffee Table, Glass & Gold Leaf
By Yves Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Monogold coffee table. Glass, Plexiglas, metal and gold leaf. Signed R. Klein Moquay and numbered on a label affixed to the underside of the table. This work is from an e...
Metal, Gold Leaf
"22k Gold Leaf Handmade Photo Frame, " Wood 4 x 6 in from Romania
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...
Gold Leaf
Coronation of Venus
Located in Mokena, IL
Coronation of Venus, 2021 Oil on Panel with 24k Gold Water-Gilded Frame, 114 x 78 inches “Coronation of Venus,” an ornamentally enriching piece from the studio of Justas and Vilius...
Gold Leaf
$15,352
H 6.7 in W 6.7 in D 6.7 in
Untitled Glass Storage Box with Gold Leaf, Hexagonal, 1980s, Unframed
Located in London, GB
This exquisite untitled storage box by acclaimed Japanese artist Kyohei Fujita is a rare and refined piece from the 1980s, measuring 17 x 17 x 17 cm. Fujita, renowned for elevating t...
Gold Leaf
Interior: Red Couch and Landscape
By Mickalene Thomas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Mickalene Thomas (b.1971) is an American artist exploring the intersection of popular culture and art history, through a contemporary Black female gaze. As an openly gay Black woman,...
Varnish, Glitter, Archival Pigment, Screen
$3,015
H 32 in W 28 in D 1 in
Modern Twentieth Century Signed Miro Lithograph Le Lezard aux Plumes D'Or
By Joan Miró
Located in ludlow, GB
Modern Twentieth Century Signed Miro Lithograph Le Lezard aux Plumes D'Or - Signed on the Plate and authenticated by the Mourlot family. This Lithograph by Miro was originally for G...
Lithograph
"Romanian Handmade Photo Frame, " 22K Gold Leaf & Wood 5 x 7 in Frame
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...
Gold Leaf
InvadHirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Damien Hirst X Invader Title: Invadhirst Year: 2025 Medium: 21-colour silkscreen print on Somerset Satin White 410 gsm cotton paper Edition: 1194; hand-signed by the artists ...
Screen
"Handmade 12K White Gold Leaf Photo Frame, " 5 x 7 in created in Romania
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...
Gold Leaf
$350
H 5 in W 7 in
"Handmade 12K White Gold Leaf Photo Frame, " Wood 5 x 7 in created in Romania
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...
Gold Leaf
"Handmade 22K Gold Leaf Photo Frame, " Wood 5 x 7 in created by Romania
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...
Gold Leaf
$350
H 5 in W 7 in
"Handmade 12K White Gold Leaf Photo Frame, " Wood 5 x 7 in created in Romania
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...
Gold Leaf
"Handmade 12K White Gold Leaf Photo Frame, " Wood 5 x 7 in in Romania
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...
Gold Leaf
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H 14.17 in W 49.21 in D 39.37 in
Yves Klein - Table Bleu - Plexiglass Blue IKB Pigment Glass Chromed Aluminum
By Yves Klein
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Yves Klein "Table Bleu" Designed in 1963 and from an open edition circa 1990s. Plexiglass, glass, chromed aluminum and IKB pigment. The "Table Bleu" by Yves Klein, also known as "T...
Metal