Daisy Dunn

The play’s the thing | 9 August 2018

Had he not died at 34, might he have moved on from his marvellous, but monotonous, obsession with blue?

  • Yves Klein

    Blenheim Palace, until 7 October

Nothing was so interesting to Yves Klein as the void. In 1960 he leapt into it for a photograph — back arched, chin raised, spread-eagled. The same year, he took out a patent for International Klein Blue (IKB), a colour inspired by the limitlessness of the sky itself. He even went so far as to stage an exhibition of white walls and an empty cabinet.

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