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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 1, 2019 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Contemporary Art | 527 | $****** - ****** | ROMANCE |
paintings
150 x 150 cm (59.06 x 59.06 in)
acrylic on canvas
signed in Chinese and Pinyin and dated 2001
Private Asian Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
London, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, Liu Ye: Fellini, A Guardsman, Mondrian, The Pope and My Girlfriend, 2001, pp. 7 & 25, illustrated in colour
Beijing, Asia Art Center, The Power of the Universe: The Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art, 2007, pp. 141-42, illustrated in colour
Post-Motherism/Stepmotherism: A Close Look at Contemporary Chinese Culture and Art, Beijing, 2002, p. 76, illustrated in colour
Haung Liaoyuan, "Liu Ye and His Paintings", Artist (February 2003), p. 74, illustrated in colour
Liu Ye: Red, Yellow, Blue, exh. cat. Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 2003, pp. 10 & 74
Ding Ying, "'Naughty Boy' Liu Ye and His Fairyland", Modern Weekly 282 (May 2004), p. 42
Zhang Lihao, "Sotheby's Hong Kong Chinese Contemporary Art Sale", Art Magazine (March 2008), pp. 94-5, illustrated in colour
N.N., "Don't panic, guys!", Hi Art (May 2008), p. 59, illustrated in colour
Huang Liaoyuan, "Liu Ye and His Soft, Childlike 'Cartoon' Paintings", Beijing Star Daily (September 2009), p. 5 (detail), illustrated in colour
Liu Ye Catalogue Raisonné 1991-2015, Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2015, p. 300, illustrated in colour
signed in Chinese and Pinyin and dated 2001
acrylic on canvas
150 by 150 cm; 59 by 59 in.
