XU Bing
Chinese 1955
Born in Chongqing, grew up in Beijing. Xu Bing graduated from the Central Fine Arts Institute Print Department in 1981, and stay teaching in school, attained the Master of Arts degree from central fine arts institute in 1987. Went to America in 1990, and settled down in New York. Participates in many important international contemporary fine arts display several times, like the 45th session of Venice biannual exhibition, Museum of modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern art, the Tokyo international vision transmission center, New York PS1 and so on. In 1999 he obtained the American cultural circle highest prize-Macarthur Fellow.
XU Bing Artworks
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Series of Repetitions: A Great River
1987
Woodblock print, edition no. 10/50
59.5 x 81 cm
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Estimate
80,000 - 150,000 21,000 - 39,000 2,700 - 5,000
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Reading Landscape Series
2001
Ink on Nepalese paper
102 x 176.5 cm
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Estimate
5,508,000 - 7,203,000 1,300,000 - 1,700,000 167,700 - 219,400
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Sold Price
6,554,622 1,560,000 201,290
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Cloud Shadows
1988
Woodcut, edition no. 11/100
53 x 73 cm (image)
56 x 76 cm (paper) |
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 103,000 - 155,000 13,400 - 20,100
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Sold Price
408,000 105,699 13,632
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Grassland
1987
Woodcut, edition no. 11/50
50.5 x 70.5 cm (image)
54 x 73.5 cm (paper) |
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 103,000 - 155,000 13,400 - 20,100
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An Analysed Reflection of the World: the Final Volume of the Century
1990
Woodcut
49 x 57 cm
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Estimate
420,000 - 600,000 109,000 - 155,000 14,000 - 20,100
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Read View (Landscript)
2001
Ink on Nepalese paper
100 x 174 cm
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Estimate
4,200,000 - 6,500,000 1,085,000 - 1,680,000 140,500 - 217,400
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Sold Price
5,760,000 1,492,228 192,449
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Chairman Mao Red Book
2001
Mixed media sculpture (Chairman Mao red book encased in silkworm)
32 x 32 cm
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Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 156,000 - 208,000 20,200 - 26,900
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An Analysed Reflection of the World: the Final Volume of the Century
1987 - 1991
Lithograph, edition no. AP
45 x 52.5 cm
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Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 104,000 - 156,000 13,500 - 20,200
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Square Word: New English Calligraphy (An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy)
1994 - 1996
Woodcut (printed books), edition no. 78/350
41.5 x 27.5 cm
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Estimate
140,000 - 260,000 34,000 - 63,000 4,500 - 8,300
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Sold Price
192,000 49,485 6,368
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Landscript
2007
Ink on Nepalese paper
82 x 300 cm
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Estimate
6,560,000 - 9,840,000 1,600,000 - 2,400,000 205,100 - 307,700
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Sold Price
9,230,769 2,400,000 308,087
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