Provenance
The Ministry of Art, Hong Kong
Catalogue Essay
"In my opinion, the relationship between human beings and nature should be to a large extent defined by ‘love’. This love should be incredibly deep, full of beauty and very strong. As I believe very much in this idea, I created this work. The focal point of the work is a kiss; a very deep, beautiful and strong kiss. I hope people who see this work can feel the ‘love’ it is supposed to demonstrate." -CHEN LEI

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION

93

Chen Lei

The Big Kiss

2007
fabric, trainers, mannequin, artificial stuffed bear
370 x 110 x 120 cm (145 5/8 x 43 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.)

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 †

Sold for £21,250

Contact Specialist
Tamila Kerimova
Head of Under the Influence, London
+44 207 318 4065

Under the Influence

London Auction 13 April 2015 4pm

1
Ayan Farah
Saline
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £9,375
2
Chris Succo
Everything In It's Right Place (BKNP)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡♠
Sold for £45,000
3
Oscar Murillo
Untitled
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ♠
4
Jacob Kassay
Untitled
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
5
Leo Gabin
Naturally Wavy
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡♠
6
Brent Wadden
Untitled (Single)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
7
Jonas Wood
Basketball
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £9,375
8
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Retour
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠†
9
Joe Reihsen
I'm really good at empathizing, holding my liquor, and putting my foot in my mouth
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £12,500
10
Michael Manning
Kind & Generous (Sheryl Crow Pandora)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £5,625
11
Michael Staniak
IMG_686 (holographic)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £10,625
12
Jamian Juliano-Villani
The Man from Bozrah
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £18,750
13
Brendan Lynch
Striped Bass
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £9,375
14
David Ostrowski
F (Deutscher Film in Russland)
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ‡♠
Sold for £30,000
15
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Untitled (Punctum VI)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
Sold for £3,250
16
Mark Flood
Manipulated Comic Book
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £16,875
17
David Ostrowski
F (A thing is a thing in a whole which it's not)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
Sold for £15,625
18
Israel Lund
Untitled 2
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ‡
19
This lot is no longer available.
20
Sam Falls
Untitled (Block Rubbing 23)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡
Sold for £4,375
21
Michael Krebber
Untitled
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
Sold for £4,750
22
Dan Rees
Artex Painting
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠
23
Fredrik Værslev
Untitled (Terrazzo)
Estimate £60,000 - 80,000 ♠
Sold for £62,500
24
Hugh Scott-Douglas
Untitled
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ♠†
Sold for £6,250
25
David Ostrowski
F (A thing is a thing in a whole which it's not)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
26
Gavin Turk
GT
Estimate £2,000 - 4,000 ♠
Sold for £2,500
27
Sam Falls
Untitled (Pale Yellow, Glassel Park, Los Angeles CA)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
28
Ryan Estep
Re-Stretched Yellow & White
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £5,625
29
KAWS
Untitled
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £18,750
30
Christian Rosa
Untitled
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 ‡
Sold for £22,500
31
N. Dash
Untitled
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
Sold for £16,250
32
Louis Eisner
Knucklehead 969-XXX XXX-XXX
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
Sold for £7,500
33
Ned Vena
Lozenge
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
34
Oscar Murillo
Untitled
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠
35
Nick Darmstaedter
Rodney King
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
36
Lucien Smith
Three's a Crowd/Third Time's the Charm
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
Sold for £17,500
37
Adam McEwen
New York, New York
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 ♠
Sold for £27,500
38
Zak Prekop
Untitled (Triptych)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
39
Sam Falls
Untitled (Pink Roll)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
40
Parker Ito
Contemporary Internet Lifestyles
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £5,000
41
N. Dash
Untitled
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £3,250
42
Aurel Schmidt, Charlotte Kidd and Camille Norment
Exquisite Corpse #104
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
43
Ethan Breckenridge, Joe Bradley and Ann Hamilton
Exquisite Corpse #99
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
44
Elad Lassry
Sterling Silver Cups
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £5,000
45
Parker Ito
The Agony and the Ecstacy
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £9,375
46
Nikolas Gambaroff
Untitled
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £8,125
47
Michael Delucia
Untitled (Black Orange)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
48
Michael Manning
Microsoft Store Painting
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £1,063
49
Charles Mayton
Nice Room (Blue Interior)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £2,375
50
Charles Mayton
Untitled
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
51
Ethan Cook
Untitled
Estimate £3,500 - 5,500
52
Franz West
Two works: (i) Doku-Chair, 1997; (ii) Kodu-Chair, 1999
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠
Sold for £20,625
53
Franz West
Lamp
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £9,375
54
Katja Strunz
Aktive Stagnation
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
Sold for £6,875
55
Nick Van Woert
Untitled
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £5,000
56
Urs Fischer
Sigh, Sigh, Sherlock!
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £20,000
57
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Two works: (i) Painting (DSC 4940); Painting (DSC 4939)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
58
Ugo Rondinone
Friday August 4th
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £12,500
59
Ugo Rondinone
Thursday, August 24th
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £11,250
60
Sam Francis
Untitled
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
61
Sam Francis
Untitled
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
62
Tom Wesselmann
Sketch for Bedroom Painting #43
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
63
Alex Katz
Black Brook
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,000
64
Sarah Morris
Midtown Madison Square Garden (Stairwell)
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ‡♠
Sold for £37,500
65
Dana Schutz
Tan
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
66
Rachel Howard
Beatrix
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡♠
67
Yves Clerc
N°273
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
Sold for £37,500
68
Marc Quinn
Separation of Body and Soul. YYRBGGYRRBWYYY
Estimate £80,000 - 120,000 ‡♠
Sold for £98,500
69
Donald Baechler
The Crystal Method
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
70
Donald Baechler
Charter Oak Terrace (Green)
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
71
Shepard Fairey
Revolutionary Woman With Brush
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £6,250
72
Shepard Fairey
Lesser Gods Eagle
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £6,250
73
Julian Opie
Woman taking off summer dress. 10
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ‡♠
Sold for £62,500
74
Komar and Melamid
Ziegfried
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
75
Pavel Pepperstein
Untitled
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ‡
Sold for £18,750
76
Yuri Solomko
London G8
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £8,125
77
Dmitry Shorin
Comet
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
78
Roman Minin
Over-compensation Complex
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ‡
Sold for £2,500
79
Vasiliy Tsagolov
From the Series of Office Affairs 2
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
80
Oleksandr Zhyvotkov
North East (Work No. 2 from Road Cycle Destination) from the Roads North-East Direction series
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £8,125
81
Roman Minin
Cage Elevator
Estimate £1,000 - 1,500
Sold for £875
82
Alexey Firsov
The Spruce
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £12,500
83
Taisha 3.14
Not Allowed for Three-2
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ‡
Sold for £2,500
84
Victor Sydorenko
Untitled from the Levitation series
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £10,625
85
Banks Violette
Untitled (Church)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 †
Sold for £23,750
86
Dirk Skreber
It Rocks Us So Hard, Ho Ho Ho 3
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠†
Sold for £13,750
87
Dirk Skreber
McVeigh
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ♠†
88
Dirk Skreber
Untitled (FAE 1.0, SKR-0325)
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠†
89No Reserve
Rachel Feinstein
Unicorn
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 •†
Sold for £813
90No Reserve
Gerald Davis
Untitled
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •†
Sold for £313
91No Reserve
Gerald Davis
St.John’s Capistran Church
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •†
Sold for £438
92No Reserve
Nick Lowe
Untitled
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •†
Sold for £438
93
Chen Lei
The Big Kiss
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 †
Sold for £21,250
94No Reserve
Banks Violette
Untitled (Broken Beer Bottle)
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •†
Sold for £1,375
95
James Welling
1
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
96
Roe Ethridge
Dust Cover
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
97
Viviane Sassen
Parasomnia
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £4,000
98
Shirin Neshat
Careless
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
Sold for £17,500
99
Annette Kelm
Hans Hansen in his Garden
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
100
Gérard Rancinan
Yan Pei Ming Triptyque
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠
101
Robin Rhode
Matriks
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
102
Erwin Olaf
Hotel, Moscow, Room 168
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £6,000
103
Boo Ritson
Meatballs
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
104
Sante D'Orazio
Pam Anderson, Hollywood, Hollywood Landscape #1
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,625
105
Andy Warhol
Jerry Hall
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 †
Sold for £3,250
106
Andy Warhol
Torso
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 †
Sold for £1,875
107
Vanessa Beecroft
VB35, Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY - USA
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡♠
108
Hiroshi Sugimoto
U.A. Walker, New York, 1978
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 †
Sold for £1,500
109
James Welling
Camper, Culver City
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
110
Erwin Wurm
Samoa, NZ from the series Hotel Rooms
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
111
Nan Goldin
My White Birds, Sag Harbour, N.Y.
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 †
112
Sam Durant
Still Life (Barrels, Head)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
113
Garry Fabian Miller
Sections of England: The Sea Horizon
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 ♠†
114
David Benjamin Sherry
Xibalba
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 †
Sold for £6,000
115
Susan Derges
Canopy
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠†
116
Adam Fuss
Untitled (AF916)
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 ♠†
117
Ruud van Empel
Untitled #6
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
118
Ruud van Empel
Study in Green #1
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £3,500
119
Florian Maier-Aichen
Homberger Bruecke
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
120
Mounir Fatmi
Untitled
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,000
121
Ann Veronica Janssens
Ax
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠†
Sold for £6,875
122
Brendan Fowler
Spring 2011 (Joel and Phil Loading Truck w/Show Card, 1/2 x 2 1/2 Clear Pine Molding Sticking Out of the Car, Andrew and Max Building the New Rack, 1/2 x 2 1/2 Clear Pine Molding Inside of the Car)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
123
Ian Kiaer
Ulchiro Project: End Note
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
124
Niclas Castello
The Kiss
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £17,500
125
Joseph Klibansky
Parallel Universe
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
Sold for £21,250
126
Joana Vasconcelos
Bérénice
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £10,313
127
Gianpietro Carlesso
Decostruzione
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠†
Sold for £20,000
128
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Frattali (Yellow)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
129
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Frattali (Red)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
130
Matteo Negri
Andante Cantabile Con Moto
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £20,000
131No Reserve
Ry Rocklen
Where the Grass is Always Greener
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •
Sold for £625
132
Jacco Olivier
Community
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 †
133
Richard Long
Rock Drawings: An Eight Day Walk in the Rimrock Area of the Mojave Desert Southern California
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠†
134
Laylah Ali
Untitled
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡
135
Nayland Blake
Untitled
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡
136
Rammellzee
Two Works: (i) Untitled; (ii) Untitled
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
137
Neil Farber
Untitled
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ‡
138
Ernesto Caivano
Digits and Pores, Petals and Philapores
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
139
Jonathan Lasker
Untitled
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 †
Sold for £2,750
140
Paul Noble
Way To Go
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡♠
Sold for £5,000
141
Wilhelm Sasnal
Stage
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠
142
Rero
Untitled (Oil on Canvas)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £9,375
143
Carter
Untitled #53
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 †
144
John Bauer
A Six-Foot-by-Four-Foot Painting of a Naked Lady
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 †
Sold for £5,000
145
Thomas Zipp
A.B.:H.G.:B.16. (in two parts)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ♠†
Sold for £9,375
146
Markus Amm
Untitled
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 †
147
Diango Hernández
The Column of Our Endless Mistake
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ‡
Sold for £3,750
148
Donald Moffett
Untitled
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £25,000
149
Muntean/Rosenblum
Untitled (If you're not religious)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡♠
Sold for £9,375
150
Roberto Coda Zabetta
Untitled
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
Sold for £7,500
151
Lita Cabellut
Gitana
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
152
Gao Qiang
The President Meditation N°2
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
153
Zheng Guogu
Computer Is Controlled By Pig's Brain, No. 117
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
154
Daniel Sinsel
Untitled
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £11,250
155
Kehinde Wiley
Infinite Mobility (Neuve Chapelle)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £10,000
156
Jitish Kallat
Frozen Footnotes - 1
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £7,500
157
Chantal Joffe
Untitled
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £4,000
158
Richard Wathen
Philip
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡♠
159
Simon Linke
Three works: (i) Gary Hume Carnival; (ii) Helmut Lang, 2004; (iii) Wilhelm Sasnal, 2005
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
Sold for £3,750
160
Haluk Akakçe
Breakfast
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 †
161No Reserve
Pooya Aryanpour
Untitled
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •
Sold for £438
162
Stanley Casselman
Luminor 2-5
Estimate £18,000 - 25,000
Sold for £32,500
163
Russell Young
Elizabeth Taylor
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
164
Russell Young
Marilyn Crying
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
Sold for £11,250
165No Reserve
Liz Neal
Vogue Ciggies
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •‡♠
Sold for £625
166No Reserve
Tom Sachs
White
Estimate £1,500 - 2,500 •
Sold for £4,375
167No Reserve
Sabine Hornig
No 3 (Vergittertes Fenster)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •‡♠
Sold for £1,000
168No Reserve
Sabine Hornig
Window #3
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 •‡♠
Sold for £5,250
169No Reserve
Paul Graham
Untitled 2002 (Greensboro) #32 from the series American Night
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •‡♠
Sold for £8,125
170No Reserve
Uta Barth
Untitled (06.12)
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •‡♠
Sold for £2,750
171No Reserve
Luisa Lambri
Two works: (i) Untitled (Haus am Horn, c); (ii) Untitled (Haus am Horn, d)
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 •♠
Sold for £4,375
172No Reserve
Friederike Von Rauch
Two Works: (i) Brussels 2; (ii) Bussels 6
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •♠
Sold for £688
173No Reserve
Sarah Lucas
God is Hip
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •♠
Sold for £2,750
174No Reserve
Tracey Baran
Untitled
Estimate £2,000 - 4,000 •‡
Sold for £313
175No Reserve
Robert Beck
Untitled ("The House Tree Person Technique" by John N. Buck / "Schizophrenic Art" by Margaret Naaumburg)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •‡
Sold for £250
176No Reserve
Robert Beck
Untitled ("The House Tree Person Technique" by John N. Buck / "Art and Therapy" edited by Elinor Ulman and Penny Daschinger")
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •‡
Sold for £250
177No Reserve
Hanna Liden
Eternal Flame
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •♠
Sold for £2,250
178No Reserve
John Bock
Diagram Under
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 •‡♠
Sold for £6,500
179No Reserve
Lothar Hempel
Düsseldorfer
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •♠
Sold for £1,375
180No Reserve
Paul Morrison
Paracladium
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •‡♠
Sold for £2,750
181No Reserve
Sophie von Hellermann
Its All About Oil
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •♠
Sold for £2,000
182No Reserve
Stella Vine
The Rolling Stones in the Forest
Estimate £2,000 - 4,000 •♠
Sold for £500
183No Reserve
Christoph Schellberg
P. Taaffe 2
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •♠
Sold for £375
184No Reserve
Marnie Weber
Swan Song
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for £125
185No Reserve
Gaylen Gerber
Still Life
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •
Sold for £8,125
186No Reserve
Inka Essenhigh
Cheer Leaders
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •‡
Sold for £250
187No Reserve
David Korty
Capital Records
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •‡
Sold for £875
188No Reserve
Dario Robleto
The Sun Makes Them Sing Again
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for £6,500
189No Reserve
Ian Francis
A Girl Tries to be More Like Her Friends
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 •‡♠
Sold for £3,000

Under the Influence

London Auction 13 April 2015 4pm

Provenance

Catalogue Essay

93

Chen Lei

The Big Kiss

Under the Influence