Live Auction 11796Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Ai Weiwei (B. 1957)
Lot 170

Ai Weiwei (B. 1957)

Table and Beam

Closed12 February 2016

Price Realised

GBP 194,500

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Ai Weiwei (B. 1957)
Table and Beam
table and beam from the Qing Dynasty
181 1/8 x 35 3/8 x 63in. (460 x 90 x 160cm.)
Executed in 2002

Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘All humanity lives according to certain immutable conditions of life and of society. That has always been so. Artists should always aim to challenge these whenever the opportunity arises’

(A. Weiwei, quoted in ‘Where Architect Fear to Tread’, in Art India, December 2007, p.58)