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Contemporary Asian Art
Recent Sale
Contemporary Asian Art
Hong Kong
26 May 2007
Online Catalogue
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Lot 108
Qiu Zhijie (b.1969)
Rainbow Series: Rainbow 2
signed, dated 1996 and numbered 5/10 (verso)
c-print
80 x 100 cm. (31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
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Lot 74
Zhang Huan (b.1965)
To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond (Middle)
signed and titled in Pinyin, dated 1997 and numbered 6/15 (verso)
c-print on Fuji archival paper
82 x 118 cm. (32 1/4 x 46 in.)
Provenance:
Max Protetch, New York
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2006 Sale Highlights
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Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964): mask series #14, oil on canvas
Sold for $160,000/80,000 |
Contemporary Asian Art will be the market to watch over the coming months. Interest has been fever-pitched with international exhibitions throughout the world showcasing art from China, Japan and Korea.
Past Sales
Monday, November 20 2006
San Francisco at 1 pm
(Lots 6145-6171)
Bonhams and Butterfields held its first successful auction of Contemporary Asian Art on November 20, 2006. The sale exceeded its low estimate for the twenty-six works from China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea, bringing over USD $1 million. Included were works by important Chinese cynical realists Yue Minjun, Zeng Fanzhi, and Zhang Xiaogang, and the Taiwanese living national treasure, Ju Ming.
Yue Minjun’s Great Solidarity, painted in 1992, (Lot 6145) brought over twice its low estimate, selling for $309,750. Zeng Fanzhi’s Mask series No. 14 sold for $183, 250 again doubling its high estimate. Two works by the renowned artist Zhang Xiaogang (Lots 6147 and 6148) - Baby No. 19 from the Bloodline Series, and Amnesia and Memory, dated 2005, sold within estimate at $172,250 and $205,250. Paintings by new artists Yang Din, Yang Maoyuan and the Hong Kong based artists Nancy Chu Woo and Hon Chifun sold, as well as traditional style oil paintings by Chen Jinyu and Zhang Jingsheng. The compelling and large photograph of Pukou, from the Assembly Hall series by the husband and wife team Shao Yinong and Mu Chen sold within the estimate for $21,510.
Ju Ming’s monumental sculpture entitled Buffalo dragging the wood executed in 1990, brought $133,750. Sans titre (totem) by the Beijing born artist Wang Keping, sold for $19,120.
The contemporary section of the sale, offered as part of the bi-annual auction of Fine Asian Works of Art in San Francisco, realized US$1,097,520.00, against a presale estimate of US$924,500.00.
To view the online catalog, with full results, click below:
The market for Chinese art continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with buyers from China becoming major players. Building on the success of this sale of Contemporary Asian art, Bonhams will hold its inaugural Hong Kong auction of Contemporary Asian Art in May 2007.
For inquiries, contact :
Howard Rutkowski in London at:
+44 (0) 207 4688232
howard.rutkowski@bonhams.com
Dessa Goddard in San Francisco at:
+415 503-3333
Dessa.Goddard@bonhams.com
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Dessa
Goddard
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San Francisco
Tel: +1 (415) 861-7500 Ext. 3333
Louise Price
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