Live Auction 1990321st Century Art Day Sale
LIU YE (B. 1964)
Lot 338

LIU YE (B. 1964)

Little Painter

Closed1 December 2022

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HKD 7,812,000

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LIU YE (B. 1964)
Little Painter
signed in Chinese, signed again and dated ‘Ye 2009 – 2010’ (lower middle)
acrylic on canvas
30 x 20 cm. (11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2009-2010

Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Asia (acquired from the above by the present owner)

Specialist note

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; itis rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveal himself.” - Oscar Wilde