Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in postwar European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme, founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restan
Klein in 1962
Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962
Le Vide (The Void) displayed at the Iris Clert Gallery
Sponge Relief (1959), Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen
Pierre Restany was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher.
Pierre Restany (by Erling Mandelmann, 1998)