Sale 7672
London
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1 July 2008
Price realised
GBP 17,500
Estimate
Chiu Ya-Tsai (b. 1949) Young Man in Red Striped Shirt signed in Chinese (lower right) oil on canvas 51 3/8 x 38¼in. (130.5 x 97cm.) Painted in 1996
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
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Exhibited
Monaco, ABN AMRO Bank, Two Taiwan Artists, December 1998-February 1999. Menton, Musée de Menton, May-June 1999. New York, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Two Contemporary Taiwanese Artists, November 2001 (illustrated, p. 26).
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