Live Auction 16899
20th and 21st Century Art Afternoon Session
Lot 230
230
LIU YE (B. 1964)
Summer
Details
LIU YE (B. 1964)
Summer
signed and dated ‘05 Ye’ (lower left)
acrylic on canvas
30 x 20 cm. (11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2005
Provenance
Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany
Private Collection, Europe (Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2005)
Literature
Kunstmuseum Bern, Chinese Window, exh. cat., Bern, Switzerland, 2007 (illustrated, p.38).
Villa Jauss, Uberall und Nirgends, exh. Cat., Oberstdorf, Germany, 2012 (illustrated, p. 47).
Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, The Upper-Half: The Bust Art in the 21st Century, exh. cat., Essen, Germany, 2014 (illustrated, p. 87).
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Liu Ye: Catalogue Raisonne 1991-2015, Ostfildern, Germany, 2015 (illustrated, p. 323).
Exhibited
Essen, Germany, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Liu Ye, December 2005 – January 2006
Oberstdorf, Germany, Villa Jauss, Uberall und Nirgends, 2012
Essen, Germany, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, The Upper-Half: The Bust Art in the 21st Century, 2014
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Lot Essay
“I don't impose a meaning onto my audience, everyone should have their own interpretation. I hope my painting is like a container in which viewers can decide themselves what to put in.” – Liu Ye
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