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Lot 307
  • 307

Zhang Huan

Estimate
180,000 - 220,000 USD
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Description

  • Zhang Huan
  • Family Tree
  • each signed, titled, dated 2001 and numbered 3/8 on a label affixed to the backing paper
  • chromogenic prints, in 9 parts
  • Each: 50 by 40 in. 127 by 101.6 cm.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is number 3 from an edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Hamburg, Kunstverein; Museum Bochum, Zhang Huan, November 2002 - June 2003, p. 80, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, International Center of Photography and Asia Soceity; Chicago, Smart Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle Art Museum; London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, June 2004 - September 2006, no. 101, p. 140, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Kunstmuseum Bern; Hamburger Kunstalle, Mahjong-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, June - October 2005, p. 159, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Made in China: Works from the Estella Collection, March - August 2007, p. 407, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Asia Society and Museum, Zhang Huan--Altered States, September 2007 - January 2008, pp. 129-137, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Made in China: Contemporary Chinese Art at the Israel Museum, September 2007 - March 2008 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Xunta de Galicia and Cotthem Gallery, Zhang Huan, A Pilgrimage to Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, 2001, p. 85, illustrated
Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Chinese Avant-Garde Photography Since 1990, Hunan, 2004, p. 93, illustrated

Condition

These works are in very good condition. A few scattered spots are in the photographs which appear to be inconsistencies in the emulsion process. They appear to have been retouched by the artist. Each photograph is framed under plexiglass.
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