Law & Politics Yves Klein’s Estate Sued Artist Stuart Semple Over His Blue Paint—And Won. Semple didn't realize the color wars had led him to court—and that a judge had found him guilty of ...

Naturally, Yves Klein drew inspiration from the skies of Nice but the artist was also fascinated at how blue is the most abstract of colors, rarely present in nature apart from in infinite spaces like ...

Well, Now You Can Paint Your Entire Home in His Proprietary Blue Here's your chance to bring fine art supplies into your living room. A canister of Yves Klein® paint.

For Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries,” nude women covered their bodies in his signature blue paint and lay down on paper, or were dragged across it. This one was created circa 1960. Credit ...

A French judge found Semple's "Easy Klein" infringed on the Yves Klein trademark and was ordered by the court to pay €16,000 ($18,200) in damages and legal fees. Semple has two months to appeal.

Yves Klein died of a heart attack at the age of 34 and was only active as an artist for seven years. It was such a short period of time, yet he left an interesting and diverse body of work that ...

The one thing most people know about Yves Klein, if they know anything at all, is that in 1960 he had himself photographed swan-diving off the ledge of a roof in Paris, hovering in midair above an ...

The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to make an array of monochromatic paintings until his death in 1962.

For decades, the idea that somebody can “own” a color has been a contentious one. Painter Yves Klein registered a trademark for a shade of ultramarine called International Klein Blue in 1957 ...

For 60 years, it’s been nearly impossible for anyone to recreate International Klein Blue. Now, a British artist says he’s cracked it — and made an even better version of the beloved paint.