a laughing man kneeling down into the sea

Yue Minjun

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€4,500

Artwork

Edition of 4065.0 (H) × 48.0 (W) cm

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Hysterical, satirical – Yue Minjun returns.

Minjun’s laughing man is a consistent stamp of the artist’s practice. This time, his figure is set amongst a calming pastel seascape of a silkscreen print, foregrounded in the shallows. Referencing Buddha and the devil alike, his wide grin treads a line between jolly and menacing.

Framing

Prints can be ordered float-mounted in a maple wood frame, fitted with UV plexiglass for protection.

Medium

25-colour silkscreen print on 500gsm Somerset Satin paper with hand torn edges, finished with varnish.

Certificate of Authenticity

Arrives with a certificate of authenticity.

Finishing

Individually signed and dated by the artist.

Release date

January 18, 2023

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Behind the scenes

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Yue Minjun3 collaborationsYue Minjun is famous for his portraits of cackling figures that reference archetypes of the laughing Buddha and the devil. Having sold upwards of 3.7 million USD, Yue is one of China’s most expensive living artists. Although Yue is predominantly a painter, he also works across sculpture and printmaking. In his work, garish pink figures wear symbolic costumes and often appear in large groups like an army or a crowd of protestors. With his pop and surrealist-inspired aesthetic, as well as traditional motifs lifted from across Chinese and European iconography, Yue reinterprets traditional and modernist painting into his own form of contemporary satire.

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