LI Shan
Chinese 1942
Li shan graduated in 1968 from the Shanghai Drama Academy. His paintings have demonstrated a strong Expressionist vocabulary since the 1970s, and since then have shown increasingly Primitivist tendencies, including the incorporation of sexual imagery-a taboo subject in Maoist era painting. His Primal Beginnings series are intense expressions of the emotional turmoil, In 1988 Li Shan created his Mona Lisa series, a combination of lotus flower imagery from popular paintings and images of the Mona Lisa, which seeks to demonstrate the expressive power of allegorical symbols embedded in vulgarized images. This theme becomes stronger and clearer in his recent Rouge Series, in which the artist uses huge canvases, finely detailed airbrush technique and hermaphroditic images to create a climate of emotional unease and to express the sense that people have been "neutered" by the combined social effects of knowledge, language and authority. Li Shan is one member of "New Art From China: Post-1989" and become internationally Known as his Political Pop style.
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Rouge Series: Double Mao
2005
Acrylic on canvas
44 x 54 cm
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Estimate
378,000 - 630,000 90,000 - 150,000 11,600 - 19,300
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Sold Price
376,569 90,000 11,583
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Rouge Series, Mao
2005
Acrylic on canvas
55.7 x 45.6 cm
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Estimate
508,000 - 763,000 120,000 - 180,000 15,500 - 23,200
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Sold Price
420,168 100,000 12,903
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Reading Series – Cubs
2006
Acrylic on canvas
120.6 x 202 cm
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Estimate
2,400,000 - 3,600,000 612,000 - 918,000 78,800 - 118,200
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Rouge Series (Double Mao)
2005
Oil and silkscreen on canvas
56 x 45.5 cm
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Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 132,000 - 184,000 16,900 - 23,700
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Sold Price
660,000 172,775 22,305
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Mao
1995
Acrylic on canvas, collage
110 x 150 cm
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Estimate
2,460,000 - 4,100,000 600,000 - 1,000,000 76,900 - 128,200
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Trees, Hometown
1967
Oil on canvas
54 x 63 cm
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Estimate
1,640,000 - 2,460,000 400,000 - 600,000 53,300 - 80,000
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Rouge Series - Mao
2007
Oil on canvas
120 x 180 cm
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Estimate
3,280,000 - 4,920,000 800,000 - 1,200,000 105,000 - 157,500
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Sold Price
5,921,053 1,440,000 184,852
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Rouge Series - Mao
2005
Acrylic on canvas, collage
51 x 40.5 cm
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Estimate
650,000 - 850,000 153,000 - 200,000 19,900 - 26,000
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Sold Price
840,000 202,410 26,119
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Rouge Series - Double Mao
2005
Oil on canvas, collage
50 x 40 cm
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Estimate
600,000 - 700,000 141,000 - 165,000 18,300 - 21,400
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Sold Price
780,000 187,952 24,254
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Mao - Rouge Series
2005
Oil on canvas, collage
55.5 x 45 cm
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Estimate
650,000 - 1,200,000 151,000 - 279,000 19,400 - 35,800
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Sold Price
1,062,000 251,659 32,477
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