Marble Chair

Details

AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)
Marble Chair
marble
46 1⁄8 x 22 1⁄4 x 17 1⁄2in. (117 x 57 x 44.5cm.)
Executed in 2008, this work is unique

Provenance

Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Sydney, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Ai Weiwei: Under Construction, 2008, pp. 4, 142 and 153 (another from the series exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 143 and on the backcover). This exhibition later travelled to Campbelltown, Campbelltown Arts Centre.
London, Phillips de Pury & Co., Ai Weiwei: Four Movements, 2009 (another from the series exhibited).
Madrid, Ivory press Art+Books Space, Ai Weiwei. Ways Beyond Art, 2009 (another from the series exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 51).
Lucerne, Galerie Urs Meile, Ai Weiwei, 2010 (another from the series exhibited).
London, Lisson Gallery, Ai Weiwei, 2011 (another from the series exhibited).

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

Further details

Another from the edition is currently held in the collection of The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.