Monday, May 22, 2006
Mao Portrait by Zhang Zhenshi
The original portrait that was used for the Mao image in Tiananmen Square will soon go up for auction. Zhang Zhenshi painted the portrait in 1950 to celebrate the first anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
The painting is expected to fetch up to $120,000.
The selling of the portrait has created a bit of a stir in Chinese chatrooms and message boards online. Many believe it should go straight to a museum because of the historical importance of the painting.
Web fury over Mao portrait sale
"The painting, owned by a Chinese-American, is due to go under the hammer on 3 June.
The Beijing Huachen Auction Company says the sale will be open to both Chinese and foreign bidders.
But the auction comes at a sensitive time - a day before the anniversary of the 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square." BBC
>> Controversies, Art Auctions ¶ 10:17 PM
The original portrait that was used for the Mao image in Tiananmen Square will soon go up for auction. Zhang Zhenshi painted the portrait in 1950 to celebrate the first anniversary of the People's Republic of China.The painting is expected to fetch up to $120,000.
The selling of the portrait has created a bit of a stir in Chinese chatrooms and message boards online. Many believe it should go straight to a museum because of the historical importance of the painting.
Web fury over Mao portrait sale
"The painting, owned by a Chinese-American, is due to go under the hammer on 3 June.
The Beijing Huachen Auction Company says the sale will be open to both Chinese and foreign bidders.
But the auction comes at a sensitive time - a day before the anniversary of the 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square." BBC
>> Controversies, Art Auctions ¶ 10:17 PM
I have two pieces of Chinese revolutionary art I bought in Beijing in 1974 and would like to know their value and the market for them.
One is an original wood block cut of a group of women at a meeting. The block was apparently used to make prints, then the cuts were filled in with cloissine (sic) enamel...Beautiful...So nothing was lost. A Chinese friend (language teacher) says the print is in a book that every student has today in China.
The other piece is huge about five feet by 3.5 feet, silk on silk of a cadre leader, elder and young worker ("three in one concept" of the great proletarian cultural revolution)
The elder has Mao's red book in his hand and is using it to figure out how to work large lathe like machines that were given to the Chinese by the Russians in the Fifties (and as the story goes the Russians abandoned them).
This silk on silk is embroidered in different colors, primarily shades of gray except for Mao's red book that jumps out at you. A mammoth piece.
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One is an original wood block cut of a group of women at a meeting. The block was apparently used to make prints, then the cuts were filled in with cloissine (sic) enamel...Beautiful...So nothing was lost. A Chinese friend (language teacher) says the print is in a book that every student has today in China.
The other piece is huge about five feet by 3.5 feet, silk on silk of a cadre leader, elder and young worker ("three in one concept" of the great proletarian cultural revolution)
The elder has Mao's red book in his hand and is using it to figure out how to work large lathe like machines that were given to the Chinese by the Russians in the Fifties (and as the story goes the Russians abandoned them).
This silk on silk is embroidered in different colors, primarily shades of gray except for Mao's red book that jumps out at you. A mammoth piece.
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