
Young Man
2013
A haunting yet tender bronze sculpture by Zhang Xiaogang, *Young Man* renders the human figure with the same dreamlike, emotionally restrained quality found throughout the artist's celebrated painted work. The hand-painted surface bridges the worlds of painting and sculpture, infusing the bronze form with muted, ghostly tones reminiscent of faded family photographs. Mounted on the artist's own plinth, the work extends Zhang's ongoing meditation on memory, identity, and the psychological residue of collective history in modern China.
- Medium
- hand-painted bronze, on artist's plinth
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 17, 2016
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