Lot 188
  • 188

Yves Klein

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Yves Klein
  • L'Esclave Mourant d'Après Michel Ange (S 20)
  • numbered 201/300 and signed by Rotraut Klein-Moquay on a label affixed to the underside
  • dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster
  • 23 5/8 by 8 5/8 by 5 7/8 in. 60 by 22 by 15 cm.
  • Conceived in 1962 and executed posthumously in 1992, this work is number 201 from an edition of 300 plus 50 hors commence numbered I/L to L/L.

Provenance

Private Collection

Exhibited

Kunsthalle Bern, Yves Klein, August 1971, p. 105, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Paul Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, cat. no. S 20, p. 98, illustrated 
Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Stuttgart 1994, no. 113, p. 247, illustrated in color
Jean-Paul Ledeur, Yves Klein: Catalogue of Editions and Sculptures Edited, Knokke-le-Zoute 1999, p. 248, illustrated in color 
Exh. Cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, Marie Raymond - Yves Klein, 2004-2005, p. 190, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There are minor spots of burnishing to the pigment along the figure’s raised arm. Please note this work has not been inspected outside of its Plexiglas box.
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