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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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