Lot 747
  • 747

Zhang Hongtu

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 HKD
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Description

  • Zhang Hongtu
  • Long Live Chairman Mao Series #29
  • acrylic on Quaker Oats box

signed, dated 1989 and numbered #29 on the underside

Provenance

Howard Farber, New York
Sale: London, Phillips de Pury and Company, China Avant-Garde: The Farber Collection, 13 October 2007, Lot 530

Exhibited

London, Saatchi Gallery, The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art, 2008, pp. 62-63, illustrated in colour 

Condition

discolouration on the top lid and on the front , oil stain spot on the lower right side of the can, dirt on the top lid and along the bottom edge, otherwise in satisfactory condition
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