Contemporary Art - Edition - Hommage à Yves Klein

Aditional Information

Period	Contemporary (1945-today)

As a journalist from the press filmed in Nice, I had the opportunity to get to know Yves KLEIN. The first public presentation of the Anthropometries of the Blue Era took place on March 9, 1960 at the National Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Yves Klein presented himself in a black suit with a wave of his hand, 3 nude models entered the room with jars of blue paint. They smeared their bodies with this blue Klein paint and then affixed their bodies in a rotational movement on a huge white sheet, their prints were frozen for posterity. He was the only one to sell emptiness, nothingness the absolute.

I had dinner with him for the last time at the Coupole de Montparnasse, a fortnight before his death on June 6, 1962. Tribute to his talent. CF

Artist Biography

Christian Fritz-Garett was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Trained as a cameraman, he began his professional life in Nice as a journalist for the filmed press, under the direction of George Reymond, Information Director at Nice-Matin.

As a news reporter, he got to know the group "Les Nouveaux Réalistes de l'école de Nice" which consisted of: Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Armand, Ben, Sosno.

From 1960 to 1970, he started in Paris as an assistant to Guy Bourdin for the Vogue newspaper and Helmut Newton for the Jardin des modes. He established himself as a fashion photographer for newspapers such as: L'Officiel de la Couture, Marie-France, Elle, Jour de France, but also for German and Italian magazines.

From 1970 to 1977, he specialized as an advertising photographer in the automotive sector for agencies such as DDB, Ogilvy, Publicis.

From 1977 to 1990, he gradually abandoned photography to devote himself solely to the world of art and painting.

An antique dealer for ten years, he managed to obtain the qualification of expert in XVIIIth French.

At present, he alternates between brushes for his oil-painted works and his graphic palette for his graphic compositions, which he entrusts to photographic laboratories, in charge of printing them on altuglas or aluminium sheets called Dibond.
His works are mostly exhibited by art lovers and collectors looking for new talents.

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