Yves Klein was born on April 28, 1928 in the south of France and grew up near Nice, a city beloved by Chagall, Picasso and Renoir and also home to Henri Matisse for much of his adult life. The son of Fred Klein and Marie Raymond, both painters, Yves Klein was a self-taught artist.

Damien Hirst's work explores the boundaries and interactions between art, beauty, religion, technology, science, life and death. The artist seeks to provoke and succeeds in doing so through certain processes that question the very nature of art. His most recognisable works employ elements that are already his own and that we associate with the name Damien Hirst...