Through the use of both anthropometry and monochromy, the work pays tribute to the victims of Hiroshima, affected by the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945, by the United States.
His anthropometries feature naked women covered in his own International Klein Blue and whose bodily imprints affixed to a canvas would create the final works.
The work seeks to depicts human beings in general and not women in particular and the features of the characters are indistinguishable.
Klein wanted, through negative anthropometry, to make reference to the shadows of human bodies burned by the bomb on the walls of the city of Hiroshima.
The IKB used by Yves Klein marks the imprint of the bodies as nuclear heat was able to do to the victims of the bomb.