1954
Back in Paris, he ran up against the suspicions of the professional and institutional judo milieu. His hopes of ultimately heading up the French Judo Federation were foiled, despite the publication in November of his book Les Fondements du Judo (The Foundations of Judo) with the Grasset publishing house. (A treatise on judo illustrated with photographs of Yves Klein and other judokas doing Katas). Yves decided to leave France for Spain at the invitation of the publisher Fernando Franco de Sarabia.
May: Yves Klein published Yves Peintures and Haguenault Peintures. These two collections of monochromes were put together and published in Fernando Franco de Sarabia’s engraving studios in Jaen, in the Madrid area. Pascal Claude’s preface was made up of black lines instead of text. The ten color plates consisted of single-colored rectangles, cut out in paper and accompanied by an indication of their size in millimeters. Each plate indicated a different place of creation: Madrid, Nice, Tokyo, Paris. In Haguenault Peintures, mention was also made of collections.