Wang Guangyi

Private Collection, Miami

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a faint pencil grid visible to the yellow passage in particular, inherent to the artist's working process. There is a very light rub mark to the bottom edge, approximately 20cm. to the left of the extreme right corner tip. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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' The dislocation of two iconic images/signs creates a humorous and absurd effect that carries with it a biting satire of both of the ideology of the Mao era and the blind craze for Western consumer products prevalent in today's China, coupled with a frank delight in the silly glamour of cultural Revolution and pop marketing images.'

Chang Tsong-Zung cited in: Post-1989, Hong Kong 2001, p. xxi