Lot 982
  • 982

Yang Shaobin

Estimate
2,000,000 - 2,500,000 HKD
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Description

  • Yang Shaobin
  • Trinity
  • oil on canvas
signed in pinyin and dated 2003-12, framed

Exhibited

Taipei, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art, April - May 2005, p. 92

Literature

Xin Dong Cheng, ed., Yang Shaobin, Paris, 2004, pp. 224- 225
Zhang Qunsheng, ed. Yang Shaobin: Essence of Violence,  Hebei, 2006, pp.188-189

Condition

An approx 1.5cm area of paint loss roughly 15cm in from the right edge in the centre. Another line of paint loss along a crease, approx 8cm just above (3cm in from the edge). Minor paint cracks along the edges of the stretcher. Marks left by bubble wrap along the bottom edge from having been wrapped before the paint had completely dried. A brown line along the centre of the top edge 1cm below running parallel, approx 42cm. Stretcher marks along the bottom edge near the bottom left corner, and along the centre left edge. Creases and minor paint cracks in the top left corner with some minor areas of paint loss. Approx 2.5cm area of paint loss to the left edge, approx 9cm up from the bottom left corner, with a concentration of vertical minor paint cracks nearby. Despite these relatively minor condition issues the painting is generally in very good condition overall.
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