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“The composition, even the texture of my paintings, is texture of the pictorial matter; it must be highly effaced, intensely worked, strong, and serious, in order to permit the display in all its splendor, color.” 
Blue, gold and pink. Yves Klein’s three emblematic colours, cited in this order in his writings, are brought together on the Untitled Gold Plate, created in 1959. 
“Linked to blue and pink, gold is also at the heart of fire. Gold for God the father, blue for the divine made man, and crimson madder for the Holy Spirit” is how Pierre Restany explained the systematic articulation of the three colours at the end of the artist’s life. 
Blue, gold and pink constitute the link that unites flesh and spirit and ensures the transition from one to the other. 
A material of exchange, transmutation and desire for the absolute, gold alone possesses the artistic qualities that transform an object into a work of art, that lead to the immaterial.