Who is Mitoraj?
Igor Mitoraj is a Polish sculptor born in 1944 in Germany.
He studied painting, sculpture and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. To escape censorship, he moved to Paris in 1968. He then began to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Very quickly, he abandoned painting to concentrate on bronze sculpture and drawing. Little by little, he experimented with marble sculpture during his regular stays in Tuscany. In the early 1970s, he travelled to Mexico to study pre-Columbian sculpture. In 1974, he returned to Europe. Then, in 1979, he moved to Pietrasanta, Italy. He died in 2014

The subject Aesclepios
Asclepius is the son of the god Apollo and, according to the most recent myths, of a mortal woman named Coronis. 
This sculpture exists in different patinas, in different shades of green, brown, mordant.

Print
Aesclepios is one of the multiple sculptures that Igor Mitoraj creates in order to break with the exclusivity of the works on the art market. Thus, they are sold to a varied public with more affordable prices.

The style of the sculptures of Mitoraj
Igor Mitoraj's sculptures are attractive because of their uniqueness. Indeed, he has a different version of the representation of the human body. He never sculpts it entirely. On the contrary, he prefers to make broken, fragmented bodies, in order to give more strength and timelessness to his work.

Estimate and auction results for Aesclepios de Mitoraj: Between 6,000 and 10,000 euros.