Blue Revolution
“Blue is the invisible becoming visible. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond the dimensions of which other colours partake.”
Yves Klein.
The sky, the sea, a flame, the veins pulsing through our bodies; blue bears the intensity to arrest us all with its pervasiveness and depth. This month, AucArt’s sale pays homage to International Klein Blue (IKB) developed in the 1960s by artist Yves Klein alongside Edouard Adam, a Parisian colour vendor. IKB is reliant on the ultramarine pigment found from lapis lazuli, a mineral sourced from the mountains in northern Afghanistan. Few artists have dedicated themselves to the discovery of one colour, an intensely saturated velvety pigment, which Klein believed transversed past materiality.
Klein consulted with chemists at Rhone-Poulenc to create a synthetic binder in which to suspend the pigment as binding it with oils dulled and darkened the shade he desired. It was first seen in 6th and 7th Century AD cave paintings in Afghanistani Zoroastrian and Buddhist temples. Famously, it is said to be more precious than gold.
This pure ultramarine was born out of Klein’s desire to create a work of art undivided by line, freeing colour from the confines of form. As a result his monochromatic abstract works were born, through which he saw an “open window to freedom, the possibility of being immersed in the immeasurable existence of color.” For Klein the boundaries between art and life were blurred. He chose to express feeling over figurative form and advanced beyond typical ideas of artistic representation, seeing a work of art as a conversation between artist and the world.
He went as far as conceiving his life in its entirety as an artwork, stating that “Art is everywhere the artist goes”. The task of the artist to Klein therefore, was to unveil beauty wherever it can be found. He audaciously went on to declare, “The blue sky is my first artwork”.The colour itself is powerfully pigmented, radiating waves of colour drawing the viewer in. It is with this in mind that we have selected 55 artists from our roster, who explore the intensity of Yves Klein’s famous blue and pay homage to this electric colour.
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Ming Ying
Winter’s Loneliness
Oil on cotton
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Ewan Keenan
The Long Necked Lady
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
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Morgan Everhart
Love Your Company
Mixed media on canvas
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Maria Kostareva
Exit
Oil on canvas
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Benjamin Pearey
Slab 44
Glazed earthenware
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Ludovica Anversa
Amata Trappola
Oil on linen
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Cypher
The Blues
Latex paint and pastel on canvas
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Yage Guo
Vision From the Back Seat
Acrylic and oil on canvas
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Viktoryia Shydlouskaya
Figure Study N1
Dry pigment and binder on canvas
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Antoine Puisais
I’m Picturing You Naked
Acrylic, epoxy resin, glue, spray paint and filler on linen
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Francesca Neal
Fwstrent
Oil on canvas
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Senem Oezdogan
Blue on Blue / II
Acrylic on canvas
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Maria Kostareva
The Iliad
Oil on canvas
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Hiva Alizadeh
Untitled 4
Synthetic hair on canvas -
Morgan Wills
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
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Frank Jimin Hopp
Be Water
Oil on canvas
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Sophie Knight
Caught
Acrylic on watercolour paper
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Jordan Artim
Bruised Fruit (Still Life of an After Thot)
Oil on canvas stretched on panel
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Giovanni Rossi
Icona MG.2
Oil painting and silver foil on wood
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Hiva Alizadeh
Untitled 2
Synthetic hair on canvas -
Ewan Keenan
Landscape Mode
Acrylic and gouache on canvas
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Ming Ying
The Classics Are Disappearing
Oil on cotton
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Yael Ben-Simon
Europe
Acrylic and oil on canvas
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Joseph Kameen
Split Orbit II
Oil on panel
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Ewan Keenan
Chips & Cheese
Acrylic on canvas
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Hiva Alizadeh
Untitled 1
Synthetic hair on canvas -
Maria Kostareva
Strangers
Oil on canvas
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Isabella Gullo
Blue
Oil on canvas
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Joseph Kameen
Finders, Keepers
Oil on panel
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Ewan Keenan
Inspired By Spinario
Pencil on paper
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Enric Freund
Untitled
Oil and acrylic on Canvas
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Ewan Keenan
You Have Bad Taste
Acrylic on canvas
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Jay Harper
Smoking Man
Oil on board
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Julia Bennett
The Structure of Violence
Acrylic, oil paint, and oil stick on canvas
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Ming Ying
Holmes With Diplomatic Secrets
Oil on cotton
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Alicia Jalloul
Time Is Of The Essence
Linocut, hand embroidery and machine freehand embroidery on fabric. Cotton twill, glitter thread, cotton thread, eyelets
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Chiayun Hu
Fire Soil Air
Oil pastel and acrylic paint on 200gsm cartridge paper
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Piotr Krzymowski
The Future Was Then
Digital print on gloss paper
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Judas Companion
Ghost’s Scream #2
Oil and acrylic on canvas
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Jack Laver
Ghosts That Were Given
Oil and acrylic on linen
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Kinga Bartis
Nocturnal Serenade
Oil on canvas
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Bella Newman
Mohair Dewdrop Bonnet
Crocheted laceweight 100% mohair -
Salomé Wu
In the Warmth of Rafflesia
Oil on canvas
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Senem Oezdogan
Common Blue
Acrylic on canvas
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Anne Russinof
Do-si-do
Oil on canvas
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Elena Rotenberg
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
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Viktoryia Shydlouskaya
Body Part Study
Soft pastel, dry pigment, and binder on paper
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Francesca Neal
Haf
Oil on canvas
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Mattia Barbieri
Olaf
Oil on wood with aluminium profile
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Jack Otis Evans
Sleeping In Shoes
Oil on canvas
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Logan T. Sibrel
Crawler
Coloured pencil on paper
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Georgie Somerville
Untitled
Oil on canvas
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Giovanni Rossi
Icona MG.1
Oil painting and silver foil on wood
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Frank Jimin Hopp
Sitting II
Coloured pencil on paper
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Louise Reynolds
Blissful Ignorance
Oil on canvas
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Cypher
Sportsman’s Paradise (F.S.S.T.C.)
Acrylic, oil pastel on canvas
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Sebastián Hidalgo
In the Sun
Oil on canvas
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Salomé Wu
In Contemplation
Oil on canvas
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Oriele Steiner
If I Could spell Too Che I Would Say That Right Now
Oil Pastel on Paper
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Katarina Lalic
Blue Noon
Oil, marble, and acrylic on canvas
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Selin Uyar
Untitled
Oil on canvas
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Amalia Mourad
Okay with Drowning
Oil on canvas
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Zahra Shahcheraghi
Last Night’s Sleep
Acrylic on canvas
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Helena Cartledge
Under the Sea
Collage and pencil crayon
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Xian Tao
Deep Blue
Oil on cotton
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Cypher
Nature’s Bird View
Acrylic and oil on canvas
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Agnieszka Kat Barlow
Holy smoke III
Distemper on flax linen
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Scott Bauer
Portamento
Acrylic on canvas
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Joseph Justus
Untitled (Day Two)
Acrylic on canvas
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Martina Pizzigoni
Come un Pescatore, ‘Like a Fisherman’
Certified 12 pigments print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl paper
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Martina Pizzigoni
Come un Pescatore, ‘Like a Fisherman’
Certified 12 pigments print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl paper
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Peter Doyle
The Black Sheep
Acrylic on canvas
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Judas Companion
Geisterstunde No. 6
Acrylic on canvas
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Atom Chen Zidong
Balloon Boy
Acrylic on canvas
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Salomé Wu
Swansong Duet
Oil on canvas
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Salomé Wu
Untitled
Oil on canvas
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Mattia Barbieri
Basilide
Oil on wood framed with aluminium profile
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Natasha Wright
That Funny Feeling
Oil and charcoal on canvas
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Beth Cowey
Untitled
Oil on wood
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