Lot 89
  • 89

Zhang Xiaogang

Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
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Description

  • Zhang Xiaogang
  • Bloodline Series: Big Family No. 8
  • signed in Chinese and Pinyin and dated 1996

  • oil on canvas
  • 39 3/4 by 50 3/4 in. 100 by 129 cm.

Provenance

Galerie de France, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Tampere, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Zhang Xiaogang, September 22 - January 13, 2008, p. 33, illustrated in color
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Vides Inclus (Emptiness Included), May 7 - June 8, 2001
Paris, Galerie de France, 4 Points de Rencontre, Chine 1996 (Four Meeting Points, China 1996) - Fang Lijun, Gu Dexin, Zhang Peili, Zhang Xiaogang, November 28, 1996 - January 25, 1997, p. 33, illustrated in color 

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There is a small rub mark under the signature in the bottom right hand corner. There are faint handling marks in the top left hand corner. There is a tiny media accretion adhering to the surface towards the bottom left hand corner. There are very light rub marks intermittently along the bottom extreme edge. The work is framed and was not examined out of frame nor under ultra-violet light.
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