Boogie Woogie, Little Girl

Details

LIU YE (B. 1964)
Boogie Woogie, Little Girl
signed in Chinese and dated '05' (lower right); stamped 'LITTLE GRIL BOOGIE WOOGIE 2005 LIU YE' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
43 x 28.5 cm. (16 7⁄8 x 11 1⁄4 in.)
Painted in 2005

Provenance

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Private collection, Asia
Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2011, lot 1388
Private collection
Poly Auction Hong Kong, 29 March 2018, lot 208
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

L. Ye, ‘The Three Primary Colours of My Fairy-Tale', Oriental Art Classics, May 2006 (illustrated, p. 97).
L. Xu (ed.), Artists of Today: Liu Ye, Hebei Education Press, Shijiazhuang, 2006 (illustrated, p. 10, 24).
C. Noe (ed.), Hatje Cantz, Liu Ye: Catalogue Raisonne: 1991-2015, Ostfildern, 2015 (illustrated, p. 326).

Exhibited

Tokyo, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Liu Ye, April - May 2005.

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Lot Essay

“For me, I also see a lot of naivety and very emotional elements in Mondrian's paintings. But at the same time, its rigor, just like in architecture, also influences me a lot. So I think that naivety and rigor are not two contradictory elements, they can be combined together.” - Liu Ye

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