Lot 559
  • 559

Wang Wenjiang

Estimate
90,000 - 150,000 HKD
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Description

  • Wang Wenjiang
  • Farmers
  • oil on canvas
signed in Chinese and dated 1998.3; signed in Chinese and titled on the reverse

Provenance

Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Beijing, National Art Museum of China, The 8th National New Talent Exhibition, January, 1999
Harbin, Heilongjiang Art Museum, The 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China - A Retrospective of Heilongjiang Fine Arts, June, 2001

Literature

Chen Qilin, ed., The 8th National New Talent Award, Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, 1998, p. 91, illustrated in colour
Wang Wenjiang
, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2001, p. 2 - 3, illustrated in colour

Condition

This work is overall in good condition. There are two paint losses at the hat of the man in front. There is no evidence of restoration under UV light.
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