Martin Wong

Liberty Mourning the Death of Her Sister - Beijing

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Martin Wong

1946 - 1999

Liberty Mourning the Death of Her Sister - Beijing

acrylic on canvas

48 by 59 ½ in.

121.9 by 151.1 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Asian American Arts Centre, New York

Private Collection

Doyle New York, 12 May 2015, lot 76

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Flint, Buckham Gallery, Buckham Gallery Presents China June 4,1989: An Art Exhibition, October 7 - November 26, 1994, October - November 1994, no. 27, illustrated in color

Anneliis Beadnell, Vanessa Kam, Marci Kwon, Mark Johnson and Gary Ware, Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné, Stanford, 2022-ongoing, illustrated in color (online)

Hong Kong Arts Centre, Asian American Arts Centre, CHINA: June 4, 1989, An Art Exhibition. June 1990

New York, Whitebox, CHINA: June 4, 1989, The 25th Anniversary Exhibition, In Commemoration of the Tiananmen Square 1989 Student Movement, June 2014