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The famous marble version in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was carved earlier that year.
In 1770, two years after his return to Paris, he presented a reclining figure, Morpheus (marble version, 1777), as his reception piece for membership in the Académie Royale.
Superbly preserved, the plaster model was executed after, not before, the famous marble version in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
By making a marble version of one, Ai is referencing Ming dynasty tomb offerings when everyday objects were made in precious materials.
The full-scale plaster model of this work (Accademia, Florence), initially set up with the Victory in the Palazzo Vecchio, was replaced in 1570 by the marble version, now in the Museo Nazionale.
One, "The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial," is a marble version of a bronze commissioned by the family of the artist Martin Milmore (1844-83).
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Other marble versions are cited in Christie's catalog.
Elsewhere in the show is a model of a lifebuoy rendered in fine marble, similar to the marble versions he has previously made of the surveillance cameras that constantly watched him in China.
The show has other elements -- wooden pipe racks, scattered laundry, slowly morphing photographs on laptop screens, a large Mephisto shoe box and an all-marble version of the same -- but it is the mill and its recycling that make the biggest impression.
The qibla bay of the al-Hakim mosque, which had been irreparably damaged, was replaced by a version in marble and gilt of the mihrab of al-Azhar mosque.
Several versions in marble or bronze were then made usually on commission.
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