LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

46.06 in. (117.00 cm.) (height) by 60.83 in. (154.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

China, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Exhibition of 1985 Graduates, 1985 China, Beijing, National Art Gallery, China/Avant-Garde, 5 to 19 February 1989.

Literature:

Fine Art in China, issue 9, 1985, front page Lü Peng, Yi Ying, Modern Chinese Art 1979-1989, Hunan Fine Art Publishing House, 1992, p. 222 Karen Smith, Nine Lives – The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, Scalo, Zurich, 2005, p. 88 Gao Minglu, The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York and Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, 2005, p. 94 Gao Minglu et al., The '85 Movement - The Enlightenment of Chinese Avant-Garde Vol.1, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2008, pp. 119, 192 Karen Smith, Nine Lives - The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China - The Updated Edition, AW Asia, New York, 2008, p. 93 Xu Jiang, Mao Xuefei ed., Power of Academy, Documents of China Academy of Art 1978-2007, 2008, pp. 133 and 222 Lü Peng, A History of Art in Twentieth Century China, Peking University Press, Beijing, China, 2009, p. 831 Thirty Years of Contemporary Chinese Art, Timezone 8, Beijing, 2010, p. 199.

Provenance:

Chinese Century, Paris