1928 – 1962
Yves Klein was born in Nice he studies at the Ecole Nationale de la Marine Marchande and the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales. He became friends with Arman Fernandez and Claude Pascal and discovered his love for painting.
Yves Klein traveled during 1948 to 1952 and visited Britain, Italy, Spain and Japan. He settled in Paris where he was given his first solo exhibition at Club des Solitaires in 1956.
Yves Klein is known well for his blue period and his plain colour, textured canvases. A greater proportion of his art, however was conceptual art.
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