WANG Ziwei
Chinese 1963
Born in Shanghai in 1963, Wang graduated from the Shanghai Art and Design Academy and worked for advertising agency until 1992 when he became a full time painter. Noted for his "political pop" paintings as featured in China's New Art Post-1989 exhibition (Hong-Kong, 1993), he began to paint the Mao series of portraits. His works have been exhibited in: "46th Biennale di Venezia Italy " (Italy, 1993), "Des del Pais de Centre, Chinese Avant-Garde Artists" (Spain, 1995), "Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom (Gallerie Rudolfinum and National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic), "Mao and New China: Art from the Era of Mao and the 90s" (Hanart TZ Gallery Hong Kong, 1997), "Asian Avant-Garde" (Christie's London, 1998), "From Icon to Irony" (Victoria & Albert Museum London, 1999).
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Aggression
2008
Acrylic on canvas
220 x 200 cm
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Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 211,000 - 316,000 27,100 - 40,700
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Hopeless
2005
Acrylic on canvas
210 x 180 cm
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Estimate
770,000 - 1,160,000 200,000 - 300,000 25,500 - 38,200
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Sold Price
1,292,308 336,000 43,299
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Mao with Moustache 3
2007
Acrylic on canvas
220 x 180 cm
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Estimate
770,000 - 1,160,000 200,000 - 300,000 25,500 - 38,200
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Sold Price
1,292,308 336,000 43,299
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Mao with Moustache
2010
Oil on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm
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Estimate
300,000 - 460,000 80,000 - 120,000 10,500 - 15,800
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Sold Price
288,889 78,000 10,026
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Hopeless
2009
Acrylic on canvas
210 x 180 cm
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Estimate
840,000 - 1,220,000 220,000 - 320,000 28,900 - 42,100
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Sold Price
1,422,222 384,000 49,357
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Mao
2007
Acrylic on canvas
220 x 180 cm
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Estimate
902,000 - 1,312,000 220,000 - 320,000 29,300 - 42,700
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Sold Price
1,153,846 300,000 38,660
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