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Lot 878: SUI  JIANGUO

Est: $480,000 HKD - $550,000 HKDSold:
Sotheby'sHong Kong, Hong KongApril 02, 2012

Item Overview

Description

B.  1956
DYING  SLAVE
incised  in  Pinyin  and  numbered  4/6,  executed  in  1998
painted  bronze
240  (H)  by  95  by  78.7  cm;  94  1/2  (H)  by  37  3/8    by  31  in.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

China, Shanghai, Shanghai Biennale, 2000, p. 199 (alternate edition exhibited)

Literature

Britta Erickson, On the Edge, Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Stanford, USA, 2005, pp. 100-101 (alternate edition)
Jeff Kelley, Sui Jianguo: The Sleep of Reason, San Francisco, USA, 2005, p. 13, 20-21, 27, 77, 88-89 (alternate edition)
Lü Peng, A History of Art In Twentieth Century China (Revised Edition), Peking University Press, Beijing, China, 2009, p. 982 (installation view at 2000 Shanghai Biennale)
Lü Peng, A History of Art In Twentieth Century China, Edizioni Charta, Milan, Italy, 2010, p. 1118 (installation view at 2000 Shanghai Biennale)

Auction Details

Contemporary Asian Art

by
Sotheby's
April 02, 2012, 12:00 PM ChST

5/F, Standard Chartered Bank Building 4-4A Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, HK