Zhang Huan, 12 Square Metres, 1994 & Family Tree, 2000
Zhang Huan, 12 Square Metres, 1994. Photo Philips de Pury & Company
Colour coupler print. 165 × 115.5 cm (64 7/8 × 45 1/2 in). Signed in Pinyin and. Chinese, titled in English and Chinese, dated ‘12 Square Metres Zhang Huan 1994’ and numbered of 15 on the reverse. This work is from an edition of 15. ESTIMATE £12,000-18,000 - SOLD AT £13,750
PROVENANCE Private Collection, UK
Zhang Huan, Family Tree, 2000. Photo Philips de Pury & Company
Nine colour coupler prints. Each: 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in). Each signed in Chinese and Pinyin, titled in Chinese and dated ‘Zhang Huan Family Tree 2000’ and numbered of 25 on the reverse. This work is from an edition of 25. ESTIMATE £60,000-80,000. SOLD AT £67,250
PROVENANCE F2 Gallery, Beijing
EXHIBITED New York, Luhring Augustine, Zhang Huan, 11 October – 2 November
2001 (another example exhibited); , Kunstverein Hamburg, Bochmum Museum,
Zhang Huan, 2002–03 (another example exhibited); Sydney, Sydney Museum of
Contemporary Art, Witness, 12 March–16 May 2004 (another example exhibited);
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China: New York,
International Center of Photography, 11 June–5 September 2004; Chicago,
Museum of Contemporary Art, 2 October 2004 – 16 January, 2005; Seattle, Seattle
Art Museum, 10 February–1 May 2005; and London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 15
September 2005 – 15 January 2006 (another example exhibited); New York, Asia
Society and Museum, Zhang Huan: Altered States, 6 September 2007 – 20 January
2008 (another example exhibited)
LITERATURE Zhang Huan, The Body and Identity, Paris, 2002, pp. 196–97; Zhang Huan, Me and More, Lucerne, 2003, pp. 74–81; Between Past and Future: New
Photography and Video from China, Chicago: Steidl Verlag, 2004, p. 140; Chiu,M. et al.,Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, p. 20
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