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Lot 434: HUANG YONG PING

Est: $1,800,000 HKD - $2,400,000 HKDSold:
Christie'sHong Kong, Hong KongNovember 25, 2012

Item Overview

Description

HUANG YONG PING
(Chinese, B. 1954)
Da Xian: The Doomsday
signed in Chinese (lower edge of each drawing)
mixed media installation; watercolour on paper; gelatin silver prints
each bowl: 78.2 x 140.9 x140.9 cm.(30 7/8 x 55 1/2 x 55 1/2 in.);
each drawing: 64.8 x 50.8 cm. (25 1/2 x 20 in.);
each photograph: 87.6 x 100.3 cm. (34 1/4 x39 1/2 in.)
Executed in 1997 (8)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

London, UK, Camden Arts Centre, Parisien(ne)s, 31 January-16 March 1997.
Geneva, Switzerland, Art & Public, Huang Yong Ping: Da Xian - The Doomsday, 24 April-17 May 1997.
Johannesburg, South Africa, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, 1997.
Minneapolis, USA, Walker Art Center, House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective (travelling exhibition), 16 October 2005-15 January 2006; North Adams, USA, MASS MoCA, 18 March 2006-25 February 2007.

Literature

Hans Ulrich Obrist, C. Putman, Huang Yong Ping: An Immanence, Dialogue between Huang Yong Ping and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paris, France, 1999 (illustrated).
Fujian Art Publishing House,Contemporary Art and Local Culture: Huang Yong Ping, Fuzhou, China, 2003 (illustrated, pp. 248-49).
Michel Nuridsany, Editions Flammarion, China Art Now, Paris, France, 2004 (illustrated, p. 37).
Walker Art Center, House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, exh. cat., Minneapolis, USA, 2005 (illustrated, pp. 45-47).

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 20 September 2007, Lot 197
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Auction Details

Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale)

by
Christie's
November 25, 2012, 02:30 PM ChST

2203-8 Alexandra House 16-20 Chater Road, Hong Kong, HK