Lot 57
  • 57

Cai Guo-Qiang

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Nontransparent Monument (set of five works)
  • each signed in Chinese and Pinyin, dated 2006, and numbered 7/20

  • ink rubbings on handmade Chinese rice paper
  • stele 1: 92 7/8 by 51 in. 236 by 129.5 cm.; stele 3: 76 by 51 1/4 in. 193 by 130 cm.; stele 4: 68 1/2 by 50 1/2 in. 174 by 128 cm.; stele 6: 87 by 50 3/4 in. 221 by 129 cm.; stele 7: 74 1/2 by 50 3/4 in. 189 by 129 cm.

Provenance

The Mezzanine Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Gary Tinterow, Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument, New York, 2006 (another example illustrated)

Catalogue Note

These rubbings were taken from the nine-panel green limestone relief titled Nontransparent Monument installed on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from April to October 2006. These five ink rubbings are a complete set.