Lot 520
  • 520

Wang Huaiqing

Estimate
5,800,000 - 7,800,000 HKD
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Description

  • Wang Huaiqing
  • Nest of the Man-3
  • oil on canvas
signed in Chinese; Lin & Keng Gallery label affixed to the stretcher on the reverse
executed in 1990.

Provenance

Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei
Important Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Taipei, Lin & Keng Gallery, An Exhibition of Wang Huai Qing's Paintings, January 2 - 18, 1999
Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, Traces of Nature - the Art of Wang Huai Qing, December 3 - 12, 2007
Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art, Traces of Nature - the Art of Wang Huai Qing, January 30 - February 24, 2008
Taipei, National Museum of History, An Exhibition of Wang Huai Qing's Paintings, February 22 - March 16, 2008
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Wang Huaiqing - A Painter's Painter in Contemporary China, November 18, 2010 - April 10, 2011

Literature

An Exhibition of Wang Huai Qing's Paintings, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 1999, p. 10, illustrated in colour
Traces of Nature - the Art of Wang Huai Qing, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 2007, p. 37, illustrated in colour
An Exhibition of Wang Huai Qing's Paintings, National Museum of History, Taipei, 2008, p. 31, illustrated in colour
Wang Huaiqing - A Painter's Painter in Contemporary China, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 2010, p. 93, illustrated in colour
Qingping Wang, ed., Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 2011, cover, illustrated in colour

Condition

This work is overall in very good condition. There is a slight linear mark near the top right corner which is only visible under close examination. There are very slight wears along the four borders. There is a 3 cm slight paper wear near the top left corner. There is no evidence of restoration under UV light.
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