Lot number 3131 - Auction 160
'DER STERBENDE SKLAVE' (L'ESCLAVE MOURANT)

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI 1475 Caprese - 1564 Rome (After) 'THE DYING SLAVE' (L'ESCLAVE MOURANT) Cast in marble dust, cream-colored with partial brownish shading. H. 30, W. 10, D. 7.5 cm; weight approx. 0.91 kg. After Michelangelo's famous 'Dying Slave'. A reduced-scale replica of Michelangelo's renowned Renaissance sculpture. A fully modeled figure of a nearly unclothed young man in a pose that is both tense and rapt, with his arms positioned in front of and above his torso. Minor bumped.