Lot 1112
  • 1112

QIN QI | A Beautiful Ride No. 1

Estimate
800,000 - 1,500,000 HKD
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Description

  • Qin Qi
  • A Beautiful Ride No. 1
  • oil on canvas
  • 250 by 188 cm.   98⅜ by 64 in.Executed in 2006.

Provenance

Private Collection, Asia
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 6 October 2013, Lot 916
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Beijing, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Community of Tastes, April – June, 2008, p. 181
Shanghai, Minsheng Art Museum, Chairs Can Save Lives, October – December, 2010, p. 39  
Beijing, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Fly Through the Tropo-Sphere, June – August, 2011, p. 150

Literature

Today Art Museum, Oriental Art Master No. 131, Beijing 2007, p. 132

Catalogue Note

Contrary to the charge that his work appears in a state of suspension and exploration, the artist has actually mastered a stable state of practice; he remains keen to explore the formal boundaries of painting from the inside.

Xi Winkler