Jean Baguenault de Viéville: Yves Klein’s Doppelganger -- The Real Man Known As Klein's Fictitious Painter "Haguenault" , 2010-2012, 13 monochrome paintings with color-matched metal brackets, traveling case, letter, vitrine, vinyl, catalogue, and Xerox takeaways, dimensions variable.
Part 4/6 of The Realist Manifesto series.
Jean Baguenault de Viéville: Yves Klein’s Doppelganger -- The Real Man Known As Klein's Fictitious Painter "Haguenault"is an installation that doubles as an art exhibition organized by art historian Kellie Ines Doge Reno.
Reno's exhibition, Jean Baguenault de Viéville: Yves Klein’s Doppelganger -- The Real Man Known As Klein's Fictitious Painter "Haguenault", presents 13 monochromatic paintings of past French Colonial capitals dating from 1926-1953. Also on display is a traveling case used by Baguenault (and built by Yves Klein) and a letter outlining their correspondence.
Arizona Fine Art Publishers and Phoenix Fine Art Restorers produced the catalogue, Baguenault’s La serié Zone, to accompany this exhibition.
Exhibited at:
“Duplicitous Storytellers,” organized by Fabiola Iza at UNAM's Casa del Lago in Mexico City, MX (February 9 - April 8, 2012).
"According to the letter found with his paintings, Baguenault had intended them for the Micro-Salon of April (1957) at Iris Clert Gallery, which featured over 250 small artworks by more than 100 artists, including Yves Klein and his parents Fred Klein (a figurative painter) and Marie Raymond (an abstract painter) as well as the likes of Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, and Salvador Dali. The crate was addressed to the gallery but appears to have spent time in customs and its Paris delivery date is May 1st—indicating that it arrived too late for the exhibition. The crate was never opened or returned—and we now understand that eventually Arman’s Le Plein (Full Up) (1960) consumed it."
-- Kellie Ines Doge Reno, from the Preface for “Baguenault's La Serie Zone”
Coming soon ...
...the ability to purchase Baguenault’s La serié Zone catalogue!
Who is Kellie Ines Doge Reno?
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Yves Klein, (French 1928-1962), Yves Peintures, 1954, Booklet including ten color plates (tipped-in colored papers of various dimensions and hues, pasted on paper), 9.6 x 7.4 in, © Yves Klein Archives.
