Lot 586
  • 586

HAO LIANG | A River Apart (in 8 parts)

Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Hao Liang
  • A River Apart (in 8 parts)
  • ink on silk
  • each: (i)149 by 18 cm; 58 5/8  by 7 1/16  in. (ii) 149 by 5.4 cm; 58 5/8  by 2 1/8  in.(iii) 149 by 9.9 cm; 58 5/8  by 4 in. (iv) 149 by 10.2 cm; 58 5/8  by 4 in. (v) 149 by 12.5 cm; 58 5/8  by 4 7/8  in. (vi) 149 by 12.2 cm; 58 5/8  by 4 7/8  in. (vii) 149 by 16 cm; 58 5/8  by 6 1/4  in. (viii) 149 by 40 cm; 58 5/8  by 15 3/4  in.overall: 149 by 124.2 cm; 58⅝ by 48⅞ in.
signed in Chinese and marked with one artist's sealExecuted in 2008

Provenance

Private Asian Collection
Christie's Shanghai, 26 April 2014, lot 40
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Catalogue Note

The way Hao Liang’s work has developed over time bears similarities to the classic Chinese novel ‘Journey to the West’. Starting off from China, he travels westwards, encountering various phenomena from the legends of the Western Regions…At some point in this journey, he…enters the realms of literary imagination. In his imagination, people can undergo dramatic transformations, morph into butterflies and be reborn over and over again. - Kao Chien-hui