“My work always orients towards human beings, it’s the centre, the fundamental element of my work. If you ask me to do abstract painting, I can’t handle it. I am interested in human beings.”
—Yan Pei-Ming
Provenance
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Belgium Private Collection, Switzerland Private Collection, Luxembourg Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Francesco Bonami, ed., Yan Pei-Ming, New York, 2017, p. 94 (illustrated)
signed, titled and dated 'Yan Pei-Ming 09.1999 Yan Pei-Ming [in Chinese and Pinyin] invisible Buddha' on the reverse oil on linen 235 x 200 cm (92 1/2 x 78 3/4 in.) Painted in 1999.