LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Measurements:

78.00 in. (198.12 cm.) (height) by 78.00 in. (198.12 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and dated 1991-1994 Wang Guangyi [in Chinese and English] on the reverse.

Exhibited:

New York, Asia Society and P.S. 1, September 15, 1998 - January 3, 1999; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 26 - June 1, 1999; Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, July 9 - October 10, 1999; Seattle, Tacoma Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, November 18, 1999 - March 7, 2000; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, June 3 - August 13, 2000; Hong Kong, Hong Kong Art Museum, September 22 - November 8, 2000; Inside Out: New Chinese Art.

Literature:

M. Sullivan, Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1996, p. 145 (illustrated); J. Colman, ed., Chinese Contemporary 1996-98, Beijing and London, 1998, p. 10 (illustrated); N. Bryson and M. Gao, Inside Out: New Chinese Art, San Francisco and New York, 1998-1999, p. 110 (illustrated); E. Heartney, Children of Mao and Coca-Cola, Art in America, March 1999, p. 44 (illustrated); P. Lu, 90s' Art China, Hunan, 2000, p. 144 (illustrated); Beijing Lifestyle Trends, May 27, 2000, p. 6 (illustrated); R. Thorp and R. E. Vinograd, Chinese Art & Culture, New York, 2001, p. 403 (illustrated); Kunstnernes Hus, ed., HotPot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Oslo, 2001, pp. 33 and 35 (illustrated); Gao Brothers, eds., The Condition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Jiangsu, 2002, p. 10 (illustrated); G. Wang, Wang Guangyi, Beijing, 2002, p. 112 (illustrated); Forbes Collector, New York, December 2003, Vol. 1 No. 7, p. 1 (illustrated) and p. 4-5; J. Mehta, Contemporary Chinese Art Finds a Place in Art History, Art Business News, November 2003, p. 42 (illustrated); M. Nuridsany, China Art Now, Paris, 2004, p. 57 (illustrated); K. Smith, Nine Lives: the Birth of Avant-Garde Art, Zurich, 2005, p. 57 (illustrated); H. Lu, ed., China Avant-Garde Art 1979 - 2004, Hebei, 2006, illustrated on inside front cover and p. 136 (illustrated); M. Gao, The Wall, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 101 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist