Yves Peintures (Eng: Yves Paintings) is an artist's book by the French artist Yves Klein, originally published in Madrid, 18 November 1954.[1][2] This publication was Klein’s first public gesture as an artist, featuring pages of 'commercially printed papers [3]' that were seemingly reproductions of paintings that, in fact, didn't exist. Using a practice started by Marcel Duchamp, this use of readymade objects to represent nothing but themselves has been referred to as an early example of Postmodernism,[4] using a series of carefully executed strategies to undermine its own authority, and as a precursor to conceptual art.[5] 'The simplicity of his readymades is at once sublime and mischievous.' [3]
