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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 6, 2019 | Poly Auction | Hong Kong | Modern and Contemporary Art | 168 | $****** - ****** | International Blue | |||
Apr 5, 2013 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Contemporary Asian Art | 906 | $****** - ****** | International Blue |
paintings
210.5 x 210 cm (82.87 x 82.68 in)
oil and acrylic on canvas
signed and dated ‘Liu Ye, 06,’; signed in Chinese (lower right)
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 April 2013, Lot 906
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner (PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION)
USA, New York, Sperone Westwater, Liu Ye: Temptations, 14 September-28 October, 2006.
Switzerland, Bern, Fine Arts Museum Bern, Liu Ye, 7 February-1 April, 2007.
China, Beijing, Asia Art Center, The Power of the Universe-An Exhibition of the Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art, 15 December, 2007-13 January, 2008.
Temptations, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA, 2006 (illustrated, pp. 12-13).
"Allegory and Ambiguity", The New York Sun, New York, USA, 2006 (illustrated, p. 18).
Beijing, China Art Book, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, Germany, 2007 (illustrated, p. 247).
Liu Ye, Fine Arts Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2007 (illustrated, pp. 68-69)
The Power of the Universe-An Exhibition of the Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China, 2007 (illustrated, p. 146).
"Who's Hot", Art Value, London, UK, 2007 (illustrated, p. 26).
"Liu Ye", Asian Art, London, UK, 2008 (illustrated, p. 8).
"Frank-Cohen. Do-It-Yourself", Art Asia Pacific, Issue 58, Hong Kong, China, 2008 (illustrated, p. 104)
"Let's Start with Riefenstahl", Today 4, 2008, (illustrated, p. 287).
"Art Ought to Be More Simple", Life Magazine, Issue 40, New York, USA, 2009 (illustrated, pp. 172-173).
Surrealist Pop, Nanchang, China, 2010 (illustrated, p. 48).
"Swimming in the Ocean of Art", Chinese Art, Issue 1, 2011 (illustrated, p. 8).
You Don't Want to Close Your Eyes, Hong Kong, China, 2012 (illustrated, pp. 148-149).
Domination and Education, Shanghai, China, 2012 (illustrated, cover and back cover).
Grey Carnival: Art in China Since 2000, Guangxi Normal University Press, Guilin, China, 2013 (illustrated, pp. 116-117).
"Liu Ye", L'Officiel Art, Issue 79, Paris, France, 2014 (illustrated, p. 58).
Liu Ye, Catalogue Raisonné 1991-2015, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2015 (illustrated, pp. 180-181).
Only One Gram, Henan University Press, Zhengzhou, China, 2017 (illustrated, pp. 78-79).
Painted in 2006
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas (Diptych)
each:"210.5" × 210 cm. (82 ½ × 82 ½ in.), overall:"210.5" × 420 cm. (82 ½ × 82 ½ in.)
signed and dated ‘Liu Ye, 06,’; signed in Chinese (lower right)
