Lot 4
  • 4

Zeng Fanzhi

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
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Description

  • Zeng Fanzhi
  • Mask No. 4
  • signed and dated 2001

  • oil on canvas
  • 150 by 130cm.
  • 59 by 51¼in.

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Turin, Palazzo Bricherasio, Cina - Pittura contemporanea, 2005, no. 39, illustrated in colour
Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi, China: Contemporary Painting, Bologna 2005, p. 215, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

"Painting is a painful process; it forces the human figures in my painting into a state of pain and anxiety. I paint images of people in tragic situations, and they express everything I want to express."

The artist in Exhibition Catalogue, Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern; Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburger, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, 2006-07, p. 202