Lee Ufan - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale in Association with Poly Auction Hong Kong Sunday, June 6, 2021 | Phillips
  • “Until the early 1980s I always composed repetitious figures as a pictorial enactment of the idea of infinity. Then, somehow I realised that the ground of a picture reveals itself and itself expressed infinity. It seems to me that each delimited brushstroke, each figure gradually became liberated from me, fully exhaling and inhaling space, and achieved more liveness [sic] than before.”              ̶ ̶̶ Lee Ufan

     

    Lee Ufan
    Lee Ufan sitting on Relatum Expansion Place (2008), at PaceWildenstein, New York, 2008. Photo by Curtis Hamilton for ArtAsiaPacific.

     

    • Provenance

      Private Collection, Korea
      Private Collection, Japan
      Private Collection, Hong Kong
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Correspondence

signed and dated 'L. Ufan 99’ lower right edge
oil and mineral pigment on canvas
46 x 53 cm. (18 1/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1999.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
HK$380,000 - 580,000 
€40,000-61,000
$48,700-74,400

Sold for HK$1,071,000

Contact Specialist

Danielle So
Associate Specialist, Head of Day Sale
DanielleSo@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale in Association with Poly Auction

Hong Kong Auction 7 June 2021