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Lot 92

Zhang Huan (born 1965) To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995

Lot 92

Zhang Huan
(born 1965)
To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995

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Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000

Estimate$8,000 – $12,000

Status

Closed

Zhang Huan
(born 1965)
To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995

Gelatin silver print, printed 2017, signed, inscribed and dated in silver ink in the margin; one from outside the edition of 15.

image: 15 1/2 x 24in. (39.3 x 61cm.)
sheet: 27 x 40in. (68.6 x 101.6cm.)

Property from the Collection of Samuel Stern, Alexandria, Virginia

Provenance:

Gift of the artist

In 1995, Zhang Huan began to stage larger scale performance works that involved other participants. To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain was a collaboration between Zhang Huan and nine East Village artists who lay on top of one another in order to raise the summit of the mountain by one meter.

framed: 28 1/2 x 35 3/4in. (72.3 x 90.8cm.)

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Zhang Huan
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To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995