Lot 915
  • 915

Fang Lijun

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 HKD
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Description

  • Fang Lijun
  • 1999.6.1 (Set of Six)
  • woodblock print, hanging scroll
each signed in Chinese, dated 1999.6.1 and numbered 1/8

Exhibited

Macao, Museum of Contemporary art CACOM, Futuro, 2000, p. 25
Paris, Espace Cardin, Paris -Pékin, 2002, reproduced in Paris - Pékin, special issue Beaux-Arts Magazine and exh. cat., p. 82
Sao Paolo, Museum of the University of Sao Paolo, China 2002, pp. 80-81
Lisbon, Culturgest Foundation, Subversion and Poetry,  2003, p.35
Taipei, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts , Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art, April - May 2005, pp. 86-87
Beijing, White Space, Clues, September - November 2005, p. 135

Literature

Li Luming, ed., Fang Lijun, Hunan, 2001, pp. 192-193
Exh. cat., Image is Power, Shenzhen, 2002, p. 231
Catherine Buci-Glucksmann, Jean Marc Decrop, Modernités Chinoises, France, 2003

Condition

A number of creases and tears inherent to the medium. Scattered foxing and some minor damp rot to the reverse of five, coming through to the front in places. Two with moth holes through the paper. One with seven minor concave indentations along the right edge at the top. One with horizontal creases near the top, with a horizontal tear to the paper coming in approx 12.5cm from the right edge.
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