Lot 139
  • 139

Zhang Huan

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Zhang Huan
  • To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond (Close Up)
  • c-print
  • 45 1/4 by 65 1/4 in.
  • 114.9 by 163.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1997, this work is number 11 from an edition of 15.

Provenance

Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1999

Exhibited

New York, Max Protetch Gallery, Zhang Huan, Works from 1994-1998, 1999
Bochum, Museum Bochum Kunstsammlung, Zhang Huan, April - June 2003

Literature

Xunda de Galica and Cotterm Gallery eds., Zhang Huan - Pilgrimage to Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, 2001, pp. 162 and 163, another example illustrated in color
M.Chiu, K. Bu, E. Hartney, Z. Huan, Zhang Huan: Altered States, Milan, 2007, p.37, another example illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. There is a hairline scratch at the top border roughly 20 inches from the left edge. Under raking light there are no other visible scratches to the surface of the print. This work was not inspected out of the frame. Framed under Plexiglas.
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