Chinese Portrait L Series No.1

Name: FENG ZHENGJIE (CHINA, B. 1968)
Brand: Chinese Portrait L Series No.1
Price: 30000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 37,500

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USD 7,000 - USD 9,000

Closed: 27 Nov 2017

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FENG ZHENGJIE (CHINA, B. 1968)

Chinese Portrait L Series No.1

Price Realised USD 37,500

Closed: 27 Nov 2017

Price Realised USD 37,500

Closed: 27 Nov 2017

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FENG ZHENGJIE (CHINA, B. 1968)
Chinese Portrait L Series No.1
signed in Chinese, signed and dated 'FENG ZHENGJIE 2007' (lower left)
oil on canvas
209.2 x 300 cm. (82⅜ x 118⅛ in.)
Painted in 2007

Please note this lot is the property of a private consignor.

Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner

The Museum of Fine Arts, Red Hot: Asian Art Today From the Chaney Family Collection, Houston, USA, 2007 (illustrated in color, p. 50-51)

Houston, USA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Red Hot: Asian Art Today From the Chaney Family Collection, 22 July – 21 October 2007.

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Lot Essay

Feng Zhengjie is a central figure of the “School of Kitsch” and focuses on portraiture, a relatively new tradition in Chinese art. In his works, he explores China’s rapid transition to modernity in recent decades.

In this Warholian-style painting, Feng Zhengjie depicts a glamorous woman with a strikingly cold gaze. This fluorescent, sexualized representation mimics the aesthetic of contemporary advertisements, which often commodify women. Feng may be suggesting that women have become objects in this newly globalized and consumerist Chinese society. Indeed, the woman’s hollow and dazed stare gives this portrait a sense of her helplessness, hinting at the ambiguous effects of a hyper-consumer culture.