AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)
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AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)

Coloured Vases

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AI WEIWEI (B. 1957)
Coloured Vases
(i) signed and dated 'Ai Wei Wei 08' (on the underside)
each: industrial paint on neolithic vases
(i) 10 x 12 x 7in. (25.4 x 30.4 x 17.7cm.)
(ii) 10½ x 11 x 6½in. (26.6 x 27.9 x 16.5cm.)
Executed in 2008
Provenance
Chambers Fine Art, Beijing.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
K. Smith, H.U. Obrist and B. Fibicher, Ai Weiwei, London 2009 (another from the series illustrated in colour, p. 105).
J. Bingham, C. Yinghua Lu and M. Daniel, Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, London 2010 (another from the series illustrated in colour, p. 25).
Exhibited
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Ai WeiWei so sorry, 2009-2010 (another from the series exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 64-65, 67 and 113).
Glenside, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE - 2010 CE), 2010-2012 (another from the series exhibited and illustrated in colour, pp. 62-63, 80-81 and 87). This exhibition later travelled to Portland, Museum of Contemporary Craft, 2010 and London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2011-2012.
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