Artist:
Yun Gee
Artwork:
Wheels: Industrial New York
Size:
214 x 122 cm
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Creation year:
1932
Marks:
Labels of Guggenheim Museum, New York, de Young Museum, San Francisco, and Brooklyn Museum affixed to the reverse; Signed in Pinyin
Category:
Paintings
Provenance:
Collection of the artist's family
Exhibition history:
Oakland, The Oakland Museum, The Paintings of Yun Gee, 18 March - 27 April 1980; Brunswick, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, The Paintings of Yun Gee, 17 October - 23 November 1980; New York, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, Yun Gee: Early Modernist Paintings 1926-1932, 8 November - 10 December 1983; New York, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Great East River Bridge, 1983; Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, The Art of Yun Gee, 25 March - 14 June 1992; Guggenheim Museum, venue: Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, 9 February - 5 April 2007; Guggenheim Museum, venue: Shanghai, Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, 30 May - 30 June 2007; San Francisco, de Young Museum, Asian/ America/ Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, 25 October 2008 - 18 January 2009; Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1950, 17 September - 11 December 2016
Sotheby's Hong Kong
Date:
2017-09-30
Lot Number:
1017
Low Estimate:
$10241000
[+14%]
High Estimate:
$15361400
[-23%]
Hammer Price:
$11777104
Sold For:
$13478063