Lot 043
Instantaneous Time (Quadriptych)
CHEN Ting-shih (CHEN Ting-shi) (Taiwanese, 1913 - 2002)
1971
Woodblock print on paper, ed. 8/18 (only 14 impressions printed, according to the artist’s records)
124 x 243.2 cm
Estimate
TWD 1,300,000-2,000,000
HKD 333,000-513,000
USD 42,900-66,000
CNY 304,000-468,000
Sold Price
Signature
Signed lower right Chen Ting-shih, titled lower left Instantaneous Time and
dated Mar. 1971
With a seal of the artist
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Taiwan
EXHIBITED
The 11th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo,
Brazil, September 4 – November 15,
1971
Chen Ting-shih: 80th Anniversary
Retrospective, Taiwan Museum of Art,
Taichung, December 25, 1993 - March
13, 1994
ILLUSTRATED
Chen Ting-shih: 80th Anniversary
Retrospective, Taiwan Museum of Art,
Taichung, 1993, color illustrated, pp. 60-
61
Lin Po-shin, ‘Mirror of Modernity: Piecing
Together / Installing New Art in Taiwan
and Brazil (1957-1973)’, “Journal of
NTMoFA 67”, National Taiwan Museum of
Fine Arts, Taichung, 2007, color
illustrated, no. 23, p. 71
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