Yves KLEIN. 2 photographs and various documents... Lot 409

[Yves KLEIN]. 2 photographs and various documents concerning him. - Willy MAYWALD (1907-1985), German photographer. Superb portrait of Yves Klein, lying down, with a monochrome in the studio, 1956. Mention in pencil on the back: "Yves Klein cliché Maywald", B&W silver print circa 1980. 18 x 24 cm. - ANONYMOUS. Yves Klein performing a judo catch. B&W silver print, circa 1980. 18 x 24 cm. Most probably made in 1953, in Tokyo, during his fight against master Sampei Asami, and apparently absent from Klein's iconography. - YVES KLEIN EXHIBITION IN HOUSTON. Original B&W photograph (15.5 x 19 cm), pasted on an A4 sheet, with caption in Jean-Yves Mock's hand. "Vernissage "Yves Klein", Houston. Madame de Ménil, the Mayor of New York, Madame Monique Lang and Madame Georges Pompidou. At the entrance to this retrospective, conceived and set up by Madame de Ménil, like "a bouquet", the photo where Klein levitates/plunges, life in primer. Moving". Enclosed is a brochure for the Klein retrospective exhibition, "The impregnation of the Guggenheim Museum", printed in blue by The Salomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1982. - Claude PASCAL, poet and friend of Yves Klein, whom he met in 1947 with Arman at the judo club in Nice, was to be a lifelong friend and partner in his art. With Arman and Yves Klein, he founded the Triangle group. Autograph card signed "Claude" to Jean-Yves Mock, 2008. Attached is an autograph card signed by Gregory Masurovsky, to the same artist.