Live Auction 1559Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957)
Lot 306

Ai Weiwei (b. 1957)

Bronze Arm

Closed17 October 2014

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GBP 62,500

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Ai Weiwei (b. 1957)
Bronze Arm
signed and numbered 'Ai WEIWEI 5/10' (to the underside)
bronze
12 5/8 x 26 x 9 7/8in. (32 x 66 x 25cm.)
Executed in 2004, this work is number five from an edition of ten

Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.

Specialist note

‘At the beginning [it] is just showing attitude towards power, structure, institutions... Basically, it's about the individual's attitude or will in confronting with the power structure’ (Ai Weiwei, quoted in Exhibitions: Ai Weiwei: According to What?, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2014, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ask/forum/post.php?forum=27, [accessed 12 September 2014]).