FANG LIJUN (B. 1963) - photo 1

FANG LIJUN (B. 1963)

Lot 108
28.05.2023 19:00UTC +08:00
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HKD 1 500 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 966429
Lot 108 | FANG LIJUN (B. 1963)
Estimate value
HKD 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
FANG LIJUN (B. 1963)
2003.2.1
signed in Chinese, dated and numbered respectively '2003.2.1 7/8' (lower edge of each)
woodblock print on paper (7 works)
overall: 400 × 852 cm. (157 1/2 x 335 1/2 in.)
FANG LIJUN
Executed in 2003
edition: 7/8



Provenance

Private collection (acquired directly from the artist)



INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

M+ Museum, Hong Kong



Literature

Fang Lijun Chronicles Cultural Arts Publishing House, Beijing, 2003 (illustrated, p. 362).

Sophie Duplaix (ed.), Contemporary Art Collection, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, and Center Pompidou, Paris, 2007 (illustrated. p. 163).

Fang Lijun: Sea + Sky, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 2009 (illustrate, p. 80-81).

Carol Yinghua LU (ed.), Living Like a Wild Dog: 1963-2008 Archive Exhibition of Fang Lijun, Vision Art Press, Taipei, 2009 (illustrated, p. 296-297).

Endlessness of Life: 25 Years Retrospect of Fang Lijun, exh. cat., Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, 2009 (illustrated, p. 108-109).

Guang Dong Museum of Art, Fang Lijun: Thread of Time, Cultural Arts Publishing House, Beijing, 2009 (illustrated, p. 289).

Arts of China - The Year of Artist No.5: Fang Lijun, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, Chengdu, 2012 (illustrated, p. 26-27).

The Concept of History - Art Archive of Fang Lijun, The China Youth Publishing House, 2013 (illustrated, p. 110).

A History – Art, Architecture and Design from the 1980s to the Present Day, exh. cat., Center Pompidou, Paris, and Flammarion, Paris, 2014 (illustrated. p. 53).

Fang Lijun's Woodcuts, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Changsha, 2021 (illustrated, p. 270-271).

Pi Li (ed.), Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, and M+, Hong Kong, 2021 (illustrated, p. 125).



Exhibited

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Galerie Sud, Alors, la Chine?, 25 June -13 October 2003 (different edition).

New York, Thomas Erben Gallery, Fang Lijun: Woodcuts, January - February 2004 (edition unknown).

New York, MoMA, New Works/ New Acquisitions at MoMA, 29 June - 26 September 2005 (edition unknown).

Paris, National Museum of Modern Art, Center for Industrial Creation, Presentation of the permanent collections (contemporary collections), 1 April 2007-1 April 2009 (different edition).

Taipei, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Endlessness of Life: 25 Years Retrospect of Fang Lijun, 18 April - 5 July 2009 (edition unknown).

Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Fang Lijun: Sea + Sky, 30 August - 1 November 2009 (edition unknown).

Paris, Centre Pompidou, A History – Art, Architecture and Design from the 1980s to the Present Day, 1 May 2014 - 11 January 2016 (different edition).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, A story in 2016: Munich (Germany), 25 March 2016 - 4 September 2016 (different edition).

Changsha, Hunan Museum, Fang Lijun's Woodcuts, 29 January - 1 March 2021 (different edition).
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