Lot 93
  • 93

ZHANG HUAN | Family Tree

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Zhang Huan
  • Family Tree
  • a sequence of 9 chromogenic prints
  • each image: 22 by 16 3/4 in. 55.9 by 42.5 cm.
  • Executed in 2000, this work is number 21 from an edition of 25.
each: signed in Chinese, annotated NY in English, and editioned 21/25 in ink on the reverse, each framed separately

Provenance

Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 31 October 2004, Lot 304 Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Zhang Huan, November 2002 - February 2003, front and back covers and p. 108 (in installation at Kunstverein), illustrated in color (edition no. unknown) New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, December 2013 - April 2014, front and back covers and p. 67, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)

New York, The Asia Society and the International Centre of Photography, Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, June - September 2004, p. 140, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)

Literature

Kelly Grovier, Art Since 1989, London 2015, p. 185, pl. 165, illustrated in color Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Collection Photographies, Paris 2007, illustrated in color on the cover

Condition

This sequence of chromogenic prints is in generally good to very good condition. The colors appear to have faded somewhat and the saturation is muted. The margins have yellowed somewhat with age. In the margins on several of the prints is faint rust-colored staining of indeterminate nature, possibly from processing. Each photograph is floated in its frame, and the margins are curling slightly. Please note that not all photographs have been examined out of their frames.
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