Zhang Hongtu - China Avant-Garde: The Farber Collection London Friday, October 12, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York

  • Exhibited

    Potsdam, The Gibson Gallery, Icons and Innovations: The Cross-cultural Art of Zhang Hongtu, February 7 – April 4, 2003 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    H. Wu, Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Chicago, 1999, p. 45; V. Tam, China Chic, New York, 2000, p. 93 (illustrated); M. Perkins, “The Supple Vision of Zhang Hongtu,” Icons and Innovations: The Cross-cultural Art of Zhang Hongtu, Potsdam, 2003, pp. 4, 7 (illustrated); B. Erickson, On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Hong Kong, 2005, p. 88 (illustrated); J. Silbergeld, “Zhang Hongtu’s Alternative History of Painting,” at http://www.momao.com

  • Catalogue Essay

    When he painted a Mao cap onto the Quaker Oats man on an oatmeal carton in 1987, he almost accidentally created perhaps the first work of Chinese political pop.
    - H. Wu, Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Chicago, 1999, p. 45

530

Long Live Chairman Mao Series, #29

1989
Acrylic and Quaker oats box.
9 5/8 x 5 x 5 in. (24.4 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm).
Signed, titled and dated “Zhang Hongtu 1989 #29” on the underside.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £4,200

China Avant-Garde: The Farber Collection

The Farber Collection
13 October 2007, 7pm
London