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LIU YE (B. 1964)
LIU YE (B. 1964)
LIU YE (B. 1964)
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LIU YE (B. 1964)

Little Painter

Details
LIU YE (B. 1964)
Little Painter
signed in Chinese, signed again and dated ‘Ye 2009 – 2010’ (lower middle)
acrylic on canvas
30 x 20 cm. (11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2009-2010
Provenance
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Asia (acquired from the above by the present owner)
Literature
Sperone Westwater Gallery, Liu Ye: Bamboo Bamboo Broadway, exh. cat., New York, Sperone Westwater Gallery, 2012 (illustrated, p. 23; mentioned, pp. 7,40).
Xiao Xiao, The World According To Liu Ye, Art Bank, September 2012 (illustrated, p. 43).
Lilly Wei, Liu Ye’s Bamboo Modernism, Art in America, 7 September 2012 (illustrated).
Fu Yuan, Liu Ye: Bamboo Bamboo Broadway, LEAP, October 2012 (mentioned, p. 207).
Scott Indrisek, Liu Ye, Whitewall, Winter 2013 (illustrated, p. 105).
Christoph Noe (ed.), Hatje Cantz, Liu Ye: Catalogue Raisonne: 1991-2015, Ostfildern, 2015 (illustrated, pp. 221, 344).
Exhibited
New York, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Liu Ye: Bamboo Bamboo Broadway, 6 September – 27 October 2012.

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Lot Essay

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; itis rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveal himself.” - Oscar Wilde

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