Lot 59
  • 59

Zhang Xiaogang

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
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Description

  • Zhang Xiaogang
  • Bloodline Series: Comrade No. 17
  • signed and dated 1998
  • oil on canvas
  • 190 by 150cm.
  • 74 3/4 by 59 1/8 in.

Provenance

Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Kwangju, The Kwangju Biennale, Asian Section: Man and Space, 2000
Utsunomiya, Museum of Art, Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art, 2000, pp. 33-34, illustrated in colour
Amsterdam, Canvas International Art, The Chengdu Movement, 2000
Hong Kong, Hanart T Z Gallery, Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, 2004, p. 118, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

"I had no idea how to express the feeling [old photographs] imparted to me within a painting until I saw the work of Gerhard Richter in Germany in 1992. Before I went to Germany my favourite artist was Anselm Kiefer, yet ... it was Richter's work that I found thought-provoking, in particular its flat, smooth qualities."

The artist cited in Karen Smith, Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, Zürich 2005, p. 285