Ruan Jie

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

Ruan Jie
Grey Series, No. IV
signed, titled and dated 1988, Shanghai Academy of Oil Painting and Sculpture in Chinese on the reverse
oil on canvas
45 3/4 by 39 3/8 in. 116 by 100 cm

Provenance

M.W. Murtaugh Collection, Los Angeles

Exhibited

Pasadena, Pacific Asia Museum, "I Don't Want to Play Cards with Cézanne" and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese "New Wave" and "Avant-Garde" Art of the Eighties, 1991, no. 17, p. 75, illustrated in color

Catalogue Note

"China's Art New Wave embodied the aspiration of the young artists of that new generation; it was a springtime in which the seeds of Chinese contemporary art blossomed and flourished. Today my heart still surges with courage and inspiration whenever I recall being one of those young artists then."
RUAN JIE, JANUARY 2006