Lot #58 - Qi Zhilong
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Auction House:Mossgreen
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Sale Name:The Australian Art Collection of Sandra Powell & Andrew King
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Sale Date:19 Mar 2014 ~ 6.30pm
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Lot #:58
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Lot Description:Qi Zhilong
(Chinese Born 1962)
Woman number 3, 2000
oil on canvas
64 x 54cm
signed and dated to verso -
Provenance:Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
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Notes:Qi Zhilong is a prominent painter who is known for his political pop images, mostly of Chinese women during the Cultural Revolution. His consumer icon series helped gain him international fame. After 1995, his main subjects were girl soldiers dressed in uniforms from the Cultural Revolution period. These green uniforms were an emblem of fashion then, but also of ideology, standing for justice, courage and righteousness. Qi Zhilong further plays on the contradictions of Chinese society and history: his models although rendered anonymous are actually icons of the new society and are at odds with the Communist ideals of uniform. When he depicts a young woman in military uniform wearing fashionable make-up, on a sweet face, the artist conveys all the complex feelings involved in the re-evaluation of that part of Chinese history. Clearly however uniforms are no longer a symbol of idealism for him.
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Estimate:A$18,000 - 25,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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