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| Liu Wei, Revolutionary Family Series (Three Figures) 1991, oil on canvas, 99.5 x 99 cm |
The Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary Asian Art Evening Sale featured two 1990s-era works by Liu Wei, each representing an important phase in the artist’s oeuvre. From 1991, Revolutionary Family Series (Three Figures) features the bright colours characteristic of the artist’s Revolutionary Family Series and shows early hints of the distortion and exaggeration that the artist’s later style would define. The background evokes propaganda paintings of the Cultural Revolution, while its Pop style conveys China’s political atmosphere in the early 1990s. One of Liu’s earliest works, it represented the artist in the 1993 Venice Biennale, a watershed moment for Chinese artists on an international stage.
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