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- ↑ Christie's
- ↑ The Inferno of Colours by Yves Klein, Memento, 25 June 2018
- ↑ Pierre Restany, Yves Klein, Paris, 1982, p. 223 (French)
- ↑ Christie's
- ↑ Pierre Restany,Yves Klein, Fire at the Heart of the Void, Puttnam, 2005 p. 52
- ↑ Christie's
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