Painted in 2011, Broken Mirror presents one of Yuan Yuan's most quietly unsettling interior spaces, where the physical world appears to be mid-dissolution. A fractured reflective surface anchors the composition, multiplying and distorting fragments of an ornate room into competing geometries. Yuan Yuan renders curtain folds, gilded moldings, and aged wallpaper with painstaking fidelity, yet the accumulation of meticulous detail only deepens the sense of unreality. The break in the mirror does not simply shatter an image; it splinters the viewer's orientation entirely, making it impossible to determine where the room ends and its reflection begins. At 171 by 180 cm, the painting operates at a scale that implicates the viewer physically, drawing the eye across surface textures that seem almost tactile before the underlying disorientation reasserts itself. Yuan Yuan's technique owes something to the tradition of Dutch interior painting and the Romantic fascination with ruin, yet the work reads unmistakably as contemporary, channeling anxiety about representation, memory, and the reliability of surfaces. The palette, built from warm ochres, dusty rose, and cold grey, holds these tensions in careful suspension. Broken Mirror is a strong example of the sustained conceptual project that has distinguished Yuan Yuan among the most rigorous painters working in China today. Works from this period, when the artist was consolidating the formal language for which he has since become internationally recognized, are increasingly sought by collectors focused on contemporary painting of lasting critical weight. The canvas is signed and offered in unframed condition, allowing the acquirer full flexibility in presentation.