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William KLEIN Ali knocks out Foreman, Kinshasa, Zaire - 1974…
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William KLEIN Ali knocks out Foreman, Kinshasa, Zaire - 1974…
See original version (French)
Estimate €20,000 - €30,000
Voluntary lot
Description
William KLEIN
Ali knocks out Foreman, Kinshasa, Zaire - 1974 (painted in 2010)
Contact photograph painted with acrylic in frame
Signed, titled and dated on the back
99.3 x 119.8 cm
Contact photograph painted with acrylic, framed; signed, titled, and dated on the back
39.1 x 47.2 in.
Provenance: Polka Galerie, Paris
Private collection, Paris
A Polka Galerie certificate signed by the artist will be given to the buyer
FR
In 1986, for a series of television documentaries, William Klein asked several leading photographers to comment on their contact sheets. Given the interest and success of his films, Klein began to reconsider the very purpose of the contact sheet. By isolating the chosen image, printing it in large format and surrounding it with a thick line of paint, he amplified the importance he gave to his choices. These painted contacts represent Klein's desire to create a graphic bridge between painting and photography, a complete and original work.
In November 2010, in collaboration with the Polka gallery, William Klein presented the Ali + Klein series, a series of painted contacts produced between August and October 2010. The images in these contacts are actually screen captures from the two documentaries Klein made in 1964, Cassius the Great, and 1974, Ali the Greatest. After following the boxer for more than ten years, William Klein regretted that he only had 2 photographs of the 'legend', everything else being on film. With the help of his son, Pierre Klein, and his assistant, Pierre Louis Denis, he watched his documentaries in slow motion to capture the most relevant sequences, which were then printed in large format and painted. These contacts-paintings by Ali are the result of William Klein's three specialities: photography, cinema and painting.
EN
In 1986, for a series of television documentaries, William Klein asked several leading photographers to comment on their contact sheets. Given the interest and success of his films, Klein began to reconsider the very nature of the contact sheet. By isolating the chosen image, printing it in large format, and outlining it with a thick line of paint, he amplifies the importance he attaches to his choices. These painted contact sheets represent Klein's desire to create a graphic bridge between painting and photography, a complete and original work.
In November 2010, in collaboration with the gallery, William Klein presented the Ali + Klein series, a series of painted contact sheets produced between August and October 2010. The images in these contact sheets are actually screenshots from the two documentaries directed by Klein in 1964, *Cassius the Great*, and 1974, *Ali the Greatest*. After following the boxer for over ten years, William Klein regretted having only two photographs of the "legend," with everything else existing on film. With the help of his son, Pierre Klein, and his assistant, Pierre Louis Denis, he watched his documentaries in slow motion to capture the most relevant sequences, which were then printed in large formats and painted. These painted contact sheets of Ali are the result of William Klein's three specialties: photography, film, and painting.
William KLEIN
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