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Description: Yves Klein (1928-1962)
L'esclave mourant d'après Michel-Ange
signed and numbered 'Yves Klein 60/300' (on a label affixed to the underside)
blue pigment and resin on plaster in a perspex box
57 cm. high (excl. perspex box)
Executed in 1962, this work is number sixty from an edition of three hundred plus fifty HC


Estimated Price: $_________

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Published: P. Wember, Yves Klein, Cologne 1969, p. 98, no. S 20 (another from the edition illus.).
S. Stich, Yves Klein, Stuttgart 1994, p. 247 (another from the edition illus.).
J.-P. Ledeur, Yves Klein. Catalogue raisonné des éditions et sculptures édités, Knokke-le-Zoute 2000, p. 248 (another from the edition illus.).

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