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Provenance: Schoeni Art Gallery Ltd., Hong Kong, China
Acquired directly from the above by the previous owner
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 October 2007, Lot 617
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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Exhibited: Bonn, Germany, Bonn Kunstmuseum, China!, 29 February-16 June 1996. Vienna, Austria, Vienna Kuenstlerhaus, China!, 1997.
Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, China!, 1997.
Copenhagen, Denmark, Charlottenborg, China!, 1997.
Berlin, Germany, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, China!, 1997-1998.
Warsaw, Poland, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, China!, 1998.
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Literature: Kunstmuseum Bonn, China!, exh. cat., Bonn, Germany, 1996 (illustrated, pp. 62-63).
Lu Peng, 90s Art China 1990-1999, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Hunan, 2000 (display image illustrated, p. 102).
Hebei Education Press, Today's Chinese Painters - Yue Minjun The Lost Self, Hebei, China, 2005 (illustrated, pp. 80-81).
He Xiangning Art Museum, Reproduction Icons: Yue Minjun Works, 2004-2006, Guangdong, China, 2006 (illustrated, p. 12).
Sichuan Arts Publishing House, Collected Edition of Chinese Oil Painter: Yue Minjun, Sichuan, China, 2006 (illustrated, pp. 48-49).
Oriental Art, Issue No. 11, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2006 (illustrated, p. 143).
The National Art Museum of China, The Constructed Dimension - 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Vol. II - Case Studies and Criticism, Beijing, China, 2010 (illustrated, p. 236).
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Notes: Faces of New China: An Important Private Collection
YUE MINJUN
(Chinese, B. 1962)
The Massacre at Chios
dated '1994'; signed in Chinese (lower left of the left panel)
oil on canvas, diptych
each: 250 x 182 cm. (98 1/3 x 17 1/2 in.)
overall: 250 x 364 cm (98 1/3 x 143 1/3 in.)
Painted in 1994