Lot 824
  • 824

Cai Guo-Qiang

Estimate
250,000 - 450,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Project for Extraterrestrials No.9: Fetus Movement II (set of four)
  • executed in 1992
  • gunpowder and ink on paper, chromogenic print and plastic bag used by artist to carry gunpowder
signed in Pinyin and Chinese, titled in Chinese and English and numbered 5/15, framed

Provenance

Private Collection
Christie's, Hong Kong, 26 May 2013, lot 127
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

China, Beijing, Soka Art Center, Clouds: Power of Asian Contemporary Art, 2010, pp. 96-97

Condition

These works are generally in good condition with slight surface undulation throughout. Please note that the works were not examined out of their frames.
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