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Lot 142
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Su Xinping

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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Su Xinping
  • Sleeping Man, Departing Horse
  • signed and titled in Chinese, signed Su Xing-ping in English, numbered 1/20 and dated 1989
  • lithograph
  • 26 by 20 7/8 in. 66 by 53 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 form the Chinese “New Wave” and “Avant-Garde” Art of the Eighties, 1991, no. 20, p. 78, illustrated in color
Potenza, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Cinesi: Artisti fra Tradizione e Presente, April - June 2004, pp. 24-25

Literature

Album of Su Xinping's Lithographs (Su Xinping shi banhua ji), Qingdao, 1992, cover and p. 1.
Su Xinping's Art, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 10

Catalogue Note

"The Reclining Men and His Departing Horse was created in early 1989 when China was facing immense challenges from social reform and opening. This work reflects my concerns and thoughts as an artist over the nation’s future and destiny. The reclining man symbolizes the status of awakening and reflection, the departing white horse suggests the out-reaching thoughts and vision, while the poles signify the milestones of the progress of our time and history."
SU XINPING, NOVEMBER 2005