[KLEIN Yves]. RESTANY Pierre.

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[KLEIN Yves]. RESTANY Pierre.
TAPUSCRITE LETTER TO ELENA PALUMBO (Yves Klein's main model), February 3, 1987, on blue peel paper. - PALUMBO ELENA. MANUSCRIPTED LETTER TO PIERRE RESTANY, January 27, 1986. With envelope. 3 pages in-4. THESE 2 LETTERS ARE UNPUBLISHED. "... I felt this experience as a very intense moment of life, exhausting and fulfilling at the same time: one is at the same time oneself and the other, one is the medium, the transfigured oracle through which the wind of the Spirit blows, which both empties and animates you.... everything happened in the communicative joy of his dazzling intuitions, and perhaps this general good humour was only a modest way of tempering the intensity of his artistic and human commitment" - RESTANY Pierre. AUTOGRAPHIC LETTER SIGNED IN OTTO HAHN about the relationship between Manzoni and Yves Klein: "I read your preface to the exhibition Manzoni at Mathias Fels and the interview you gave to Abadie in "Galerie des arts" no. 83 under the title "La triste histoire de Manzoni". I note that in both cases you take strange liberties with the story (...)". 2 in-4 pages on peel paper, with many erasures and Restany's handwritten signature. IN EDITED TEXT (fringed margins). - RESTANY Pierre. SELF-LETTER SIGNED TO M. BERTRY, director of "Couleurs" January 17, 1957, 1 page in-4. Letter relating to Yves Klein. - RESTANY Pierre. TAPUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED TO ROTRAUT KLEIN, November 27, 1962. 1 page in-4. In this letter, Restany asks Rotraut, Klein's wife, not to participate, despite his intention, in an exhibition of the New Realists. TEXT UNEDITED. - CATALOGUE YVES KLEIN. Paris, Karl Flinker Gallery, February-March 1973. In-4, paperback. 9 beautiful colour illustrations. - YVES KLEIN 1928-1962 SELECTED WRITINGS. The Tate Gallery. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Yves Klein, London, Tate Gallery, 1974. In-8 square. - MILLET Catherine. YVES KLEIN. Paris, Art Press / Flammarion, 1983. The book is dedicated to Restany: "For Pierre Restany, with all the friendship and admiration of Catherine Millet". With a handwritten letter from Catherine Millet to Restany on an Art Press letterhead. In its envelope, dated 27 January 1983.
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