Lot 631
  • 631

Xu Bing B. 1955

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 HKD
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Description

  • Xu Bing
  • Book from the Sky
  • set of four woodblock printed books with Japanese wood box

signed in pinyin and Chinese, numbered 19/100, executed between 1988-1991

Provenance

Eslite Gallery, Taiwan.  
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Czech Republic, The National Gallery (Prague), Xu Bing: A Book From the Sky and Classroom Calligraphy, 2000.  

Literature

History of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1979-1989, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1995, pp.373-374.
Xu Bing: A Book From the Sky and Classroom Calligraphy, The National Gallery (Prague), Czech Republic, 2000
Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Xu Bing and Cai Guo-Qiang, China, Timezone 8 Ltd., Beijing, 2005, p.6.
Eslite Gallery, Xu Bing, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003, (cover), pp.11-13 & p.18.
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2005, p.285.

Condition

Some minor foxing, otherwise generally in very good condition.
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