Lot 930
  • 930

Fang Lijun

Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 HKD
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Description

  • Fang Lijun
  • 1999.6.1 (hexatych)
  • each signed in Chinese, titled and dated 1999.6.1 and numbered 3/8
  • woodblock print in six scrolls

Provenance

Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 5 April, 2010, lot 310
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Macao, Museum of Contemporary Art CACOM, Futuro, 2000, p. 25
Paris, Espace Cardin, Paris -Pékin, 2002, reproduced in Paris - Pékin, special issue Beaux-Arts Magazine and exh. cat., p. 82
São Paolo, Museum of the University of São Paolo, China 2002, pp. 80-81
Lisbon, Culturgest Foundation, Subversion and Poetry, 2003, p. 35
Taipei, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art, April - May 2005, pp. 86-87
Beijing, White Space, Clues, September - November 2005, p. 135

Literature

Li Luming, ed., Fang Lijun, Hunan, 2001, pp. 192-193
Exh.Cat., Image is Power, Shenzhen, 2002, p. 231
Catherine Buci-Glucksmann, Jean-Marc Decrop, Modernités Chinoises, France, 2003
Endlessness of Life: 25 Years Retrospect of Fang Lijun, Taiwan Artist Publishing Co., 2009, p. 102
Living Like a Dog - 1963-2008 Fang Lijun, Vision Art, Taiwan, 2009, p. 277
Uta Grosenick, Caspar H. Schübbe eds., China Art Book, Cologne, Germany, 2007, p. 84

Condition

This work is generally in good condition. There are consistent horizontal creases, with the most noticeable one on the far right scroll, measuring ca. 10cm, and patches of paper loss, which are both inherent to the artist's working medium. Please note that it was not examined under ultraviolet light.
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