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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Modern + Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  13 Jun 2018 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  51
• Lot Description:
  Gonkar Gyatso
  (born 1961, Tibetan/British)
  Shambala Of The Modern Times, 2009
  silkscreen print in four parts; edition: 48/50
  98.0 x 107.0 cm (overall)
  signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image
  RELATED WORK: The Shambala in Modern Times, 2008, collage, pencil and ink on paper, 200.0 x 200.0 cm, exhibited in Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, 7 June – 22 November 2009
• Provenance:
  China Arts Project, Beijing; Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2010
• Exhibited:
  Tibet Art Now: on the threshold of a new future, Tibet Art Gallery, Temple, Amsterdam, 3 June – 6 July 2009 (another example); Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, 19 March – 30 April 2010 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 17) ; Three Realms, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 25 February – 29 April 2012 (another example); Seeking Shambala, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 6 March – 21 October 2012 (another example)
• References:
  Smee, S., ‘In MFA Exhibit, Seeking Shambala, Everything is Illuminated’, The Boston Globe, Boston, 30 March 2012 (illus., another example); ‘Urban Legend’, Art & Antiques Magazine, Wilmington, USA, May 2012 (illus., another example)
• Notes:
  Gonkar Gyatso lives and works in London, United Kingdom SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015 Janela, Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods, Kochi-Muziris Biennial, India; 2014 Tibet India, New Beginnings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ; 2013 Freedom, just another word... Mass Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA ; 2013 The Weight of History, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; 2012 Shambala, Museum of Fine Art Boston, Boston, USA; 2012 Three Realms, Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University, Brisbane; 2010 Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA; 2010 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane ; 2009 Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy ; 2008 A Question of Evidence, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; 2007 Thermocline of new Art Asian Waves, ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; 2006 Tibet, Wereld Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands; 1999 Limbers Due Tibet, Lyon City Gallery, France ; 1989 The National Avant-Garde Fine Art Exhibition-89, The National Art Gallery, Beijing, China SELECTED LITERATURE Wright, S. P., THREE REALMS: Gonkar Gyatso, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011; Gyatso, N., Gonkar Gyatso : la peinture tibétaine en quête de sa propre modernité, Harmattan, Paris, 2005 SELECTED COLLECTIONS Immigration and Diversity Museum, London, UK ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA; Newark Museum, New York, USA ; New York Public Library, New York, USA; Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom ; Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane ; Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands REPRESENTED BY Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong ; 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong ; TAG Fine Arts, London
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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