Lot 940
  • 940

Wang Qingsong

Estimate
350,000 - 500,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wang Qingsong
  • Follow me
  • photograph
signed in Chinese and Pinyin, dated 2003 and numbered 3/20, framed

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe

Exhibited

China, Beijing, CourtYard Gallery, Romantique: Wang Qingsong, 2004, pp. 5 and 16-17 (alternate edition exhibited)
USA, New York, Salon 24, Romantique: Wang Qingsong, 2004. (alternate edition exhibited)
Japan, Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millennium, 2 July-4 September 2005, pp. 80-81  (alternate edition exhibited) 
UK, London, Albion Gallery, Wang Qingsong, 6 June-7 July 2006
China, Beijing, Chinablue Gallery, Thinker: Wang Qingsong, 27 April – 6 June 2007, pp. 188-189

Literature

Uta Grosenick, Caspar H. Schübbe eds., China Art Book, Cologne, Germany, 2007, p. 438
Provincia di Milano and Skira, Cina: Prospettive d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, 2005, pp. 62-63
Chinese Contemporary Photography, Barcelona, Spain, 2007, pp. 136-137
Madhouse Art Limited, Unparalleled madness: Wang Qingsong, Hong Kong, 2008 (alternate edition, unpaginated)
China Youth Press Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, OUR FUTURE: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Beijing, China, 2008, p. 131 (different size version illustrated)
24 Ore Motta Culture and Palazzo Reale, Cina, Rinascita Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 2009, p. 166  (different size version illustrated)

Condition

This work is generally in good condition. Please note that it was not examined under ultraviolet light and out of its frame.
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