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Lot 1641: WANG JIN

Est: $80,000 HKD - $120,000 HKD
Christie'sHong Kong, Hong KongNovember 30, 2009

Item Overview

Description

WANG JIN
(B. 1962)
Fighting the Flood - Red Flag Canal
chromogenic print
127 x 86.4 cm. (50 x 34 in.)
edition 6/10
Executed in 1994

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Paris, France, Place Cardin, Paris - Pekin. Paris: Chinese 21st Century, 5-28 October, 2002 (different edition exhibited).
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection Traveling exhibition: Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Bern, 13 June-16 October, 2005/Hamburg, Germany, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2006 Berkeley, USA, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, September 2008-January, 2009 (different edition exhibited).
Friedman Benda, New York, USA, Wang Jin, 2007 (different edition exhibited).

Literature

Fei Dawei; Debailleux, Henri-Francois; Decrop, Jean-Marc; Chang Tsong-zung (ed.), Paris - Pekin. Paris: Chinese Century, Paris, France, 2002 (different edition illustrated, p. 192).
Fibicher, Bernhard and Frehner, Matthias (eds.),Hatje Cantz, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Germany, 2005 (different edition illustrated, p. 130).
Gao Minglu, The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York/Beijing, University at Buffalo Art Galleries in association with Millenium Art Museum, New York, USA, 2005 (different edition illustrated, p. 177).
Wang Jin, Friedman Benda, New York, USA, 2007
Prestel, New China, New Art, Richard Vine, Munich, Germany, 2008 (different edition illustrated, p. 97).

Provenance

Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Auction Details

Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale)

by
Christie's
November 30, 2009, 04:30 PM ChST

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