3 DECEMBER 2020 | LIVE AUCTION 16896 Modern and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session

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Modern and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session (christies.com)

Modern and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session

 

LIU YE (B. 1964)
Boy with Fish No. 2
signed in Chinese, signed and dated ’98 Liu ye’ (lower right)
acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm. (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in 1998

Provenance

Collection of the Artist
Private Collection, Beijing, China
Anon. Sale, Sotheby’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 5
Anon. Sale, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6 October 2009, lot 612
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Estimate   HKD 10,000,000 - HKD 15,000,000

Price realised     HKD 15,850,000

 

PARK RE-HYUN (1920-1976)
Untitled
signed and dated ‘PARK 67’ (lower right)
watercolour and pigment on Korean paper
168.2 x 134.5 cm. (66 1/4 x 53 in.)
Executed in 1967
two seals of the artist

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, Asia

LITERATURE

Samsung Cultural Foundation (ed.), Korean Artists – Park Re-Hyun, Samsung Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea, 1997 (illustrated, p. 129 and 202).

Woo-Hyang Park Re-Hyun, Gyeongmi Publisher, Seoul, Korea, 1985 (illustrated, p. 102 and 172).

Estimate    HKD 1,000,000 – HKD 2,000,000

Price realised      HKD 3,000,000

 

RHEE SEUNDJA (1918-2009)
Untitled
signed and dated ‘SEUNDJA RHEE 57’ (lower right); signed and inscribed ‘SEUND-JA. RHEE 98 rue de Vaugirard PARIS 6e’ and signed again ‘Rhee’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
59.7 x 72.9 cm. (23 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)
Painted in 1957

Price realised     HKD 750,000   

Estimate   HKD 500,000 – HKD 600,000