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Lot 482: SONG DONG

Est: $100,000 USD - $150,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USNovember 10, 2011

Item Overview

Description

B.1966
STAMPING THE WATER
chromogenic print, in 36 parts
Each: 24 by 15 3/4 in. 61 by 40 cm.
Executed in 1996, this work is from an edition of 12, plus 4 artist's proofs. One edition is currently in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

New York, Chambers Fine Art, The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, June - July 2002, p. 25, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Alors, la Chine?, June - October 2003, p. 289, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, International Center of Photography and the Asia Society, Seattle Art Museum; London, Victoria and Albert Museum; Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Durham, Duke University, Nasher Museum of Art, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, June 2004 - February 2007
New York, The Asia Society; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo; Seattle, The Henry Art Gallry, Inside Out: New Chinese Art, January 1998 - November 2000

Literature

Jean-Marc Decrop and Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Modernités chinoises, Skira, 2003, p. 35, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Espace Cardin, Paris-Pékin, October 2002, p. 46, illustrated in color
Lü Peng, 90's Art China 1990-1999, Hunan, 2000, p. 261
Britta Erickson, ed., China Onward: The Estella Collection, Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966 - 2006, Humlebaeck, Denmark, 2007, pp. 264-365, illustrated in color

Provenance

Private Collection, Beijing

Auction Details

Contemporary Art Day Auction

by
Sotheby's
November 10, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US