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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    JU MING (1938-2023)

    Living World Series - The Womenfolk

    1998

    Wood(One piece only)
    16x16x86cm

    Signed Ju Ming in Chinese, dated 1992

    Estimate TWD 2,200,000-3,000,000
    USD 74,600-101,700
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,888,000
    USD 63,892
    HKD 0

With a certificate of authenticity from Caves Gallery

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“Living World Series” is created with the portraits of life as the theme. While Ju Ming travelled to New York alone in 1980, he overcame the challenges of material and venue and came out with his art works in a little garage. He once said “why do I want to sculpture “the living world”? I think I need to carve things that belong to life…”the living world” is more close to the heart and closer to the modern concepts of sculpture- liberal and at one’s pleasure.” I think daily observation and realization is the most direct reflection of the artists’ emotions. Differing from “the Taichi Series” that is simple and powerful, “the living world series” come with more narration- characters from life and presented with a lively composition through Ju Ming’s carving skills.《Living World Series - The Womenfolk》is carved in a relatively shorter period of time and composed with colorful attire. The artist excluded redundant details of the body and facial expression; rather, he captured the characters’ movements- like a group gossiping ladies who do not care about what others think.

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