Ju Ming (Zhu Ming)

incised with the artist's signature in Chinese and dated 92 on the underside

Kalos Gallery, Taipei
Private Asian Collection

The work is overall in very good condition. There are very minor scratchs which you only can see when looks very carefully.
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“I think it must be clear by now what is the chief contribution of Ju Ming to Chinese sculpture. He has taken sculpture in China beyond the level of a craft, beyond the academies and the Salon, out into a new world that he has created himself, with works that combine the classical and the popular, monumental and human, traditional and modern, East and West. He has created a body of work that while intensely Chinese fits comfortably in the international world of contemporary art.”

Michael Sullivan
St. Catherine's College, Oxford