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AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)

Lot 731
01.07.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 120 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 792728
Lot 731 | AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)

Divina Proportione

huanghuali wood

62 1⁄4 x 67 7⁄8 x 67 7⁄8in. (158 x 172.5 x 172.5cm.)

Executed in 2006, this work is number three from an edition of ten





Provenance

Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.



Literature

P. Tinari, Ai Weiwei: Works 2004-2007, Zurich 2008 (studio view of another example from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 36-37 and 38).

Ai Weiwei So Sorry, exh. cat., Munich, Haus der Kunst, 2009-2010 (studio view of another example from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaged).



Exhibited

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Illumination, 2008 (another example from the edition exhibited).

Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Ai Weiwei: According to What?, 2009-2014 (another example from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, pp. 58-59). This exhibition later travelled to Washington DC, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Miami, Perez Art Museum and New York, Brooklyn Museum.

Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art, Ai Weiwei at Cycladic, 2016 (another example from the edition exhibited).

Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch, Ai Weiwei: Zodiac, 2018-2019 (another example from the edition exhibited).



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Artist:Ai Weiwei (1957)
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:China, Eastern Asia, Asia
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