Lot 39
  • 39

Yan Pei-Ming b. 1960

Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Yan Pei-Ming
  • Oncle Aveugle
  • signed in Chinese and pinyin, titled in Chinese and French, and dated 2000 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 250.2 by 250.6 cm.; 98 1/2 by 98 5/8 in.

Exhibited

Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Yan Pei-Ming - The Way of the Dragon, May - September 2003, p.81. 
Strasbourg Museum, 2004 - 2005

Condition

Some smudging to the paint along the edges where the canvas is wrapped around the stretcher, the largest on the right edge, approx 4.5cm, 5cm and 4cm. Otherwise generally in good condition.
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