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Lot 103
  • 103

Yves Klein

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Yves Klein
  • L'Esclave de Michel-Ange
  • signed, imprinted with the artist's thumb print, titled and numbered 155/300 on a label affixed to the base

  • pigment and synthetic resin on plaster cast

  • 60.3 by 16.5 by 15.2cm.; 23 3/4 by 6 1/2 by 6in.
  • Executed in 1962, this work is number 155 from an edition of 300 plus 50 Hors Commerces

Literature

Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 98, no. S 20, illustration of the original cast
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Yves Klein, Catalogue Raisonné des Éditions et Sculptures, Knokke-le-Zoute 2000, p. 248, no. S 20, illustration of another cast in colour