L’Esclave Mourant d’Après Michel-Ange (S20)
1962
A 1962 sculptural work by Yves Klein inspired by Michelangelo's dying slave, created with dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster. The piece demonstrates Klein's exploration of material and form.
- Medium
- dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Curated
April 6, 2021
Estimate: $30,000 to $40,000
Lot 53
Artists in conversation
Lucio Fontana
Italian-Argentine · b. 1899
Fontana similarly explored sculptural and material experimentation in postwar Europe, applying pigments and resins to create works that challenged the boundaries between painting and sculpture, much like Klein's pigment coated plaster piece.
George Segal
American · b. 1924
Segal cast human figures in plaster to evoke emotional and existential states, directly paralleling Klein's use of plaster to reinterpret the human form through a lens of vulnerability and artistic referenciation.
John De Andrea
American · b. 1941
De Andrea works with resin and pigment to create hyper detailed sculptural human figures, sharing Klein's commitment to applying synthetic materials over sculpted forms to achieve a specific mood and material presence.
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