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JU MING (ZHU MING, Chinese, B. 1938)
Lot 505

JU MING (ZHU MING, Chinese, B. 1938)

Taichi: Boxing

Closed31 May 2015

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HKD 1,000,000

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JU MING (ZHU MING, Chinese, B. 1938)
Taichi: Boxing
left: signed in Chinese; numbered and dated '8/10 '91' (incised on the lower back); right: signed in Chinese, numbered and dated '8/10 '91' (incised on the lower back)
a set of two bronze sculptures
left: 46.5 x 18 x 19 cm. (18 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.); right: 42 x 32 x 29 cm. (16 1/2 x 12 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
edition 8/10
Executed in 1991 (2)

Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Acquired from the above by present owner
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong.

Specialist note

"When I work so fast, my thoughts fail keep up with my hands. Only if I enter this self-oblivion state of mind, my thoughts will be unable to interfere with my creative process."

Ju Ming's speech at Readers' Society of Commonwealth Publishing co, Nonprofit organization Juming Culture and Education Foundation, Ju Ming, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002, p. 13.