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Martin Wong

Clones of Bruce Lee

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November 19, 07:30 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Bid

350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Martin Wong

1946 - 1999


Clones of Bruce Lee

signed and dated 1990 and 1992 (upper right)

acrylic on canvas

45 by 54 in.

114.5 by 139.7 cm.

Executed in 1992.

Estate of the artist

The Martin Wong Foundation, New York (acquired from the above in 2017)

P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

RBS Art Limited, Surrey

Acquired from the above in October 2020 by the present owner

New York, P.P.O.W Gallery, Chinatown USA, January - February 1993

Normal, Illinois State University Galleries and New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, January - September 1998, p. 66

Cologne and Berlin, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Martin Wong: Works 1980-1998, May - September 2010

New York, Simon Lee Gallery, An Uncanny Likeness, January - March 2017

Martin Wong, Marcia Tucker and Amy Scholder, eds., Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, New York 1998, p. 66

Martin Wong, “Martin Wong Meets Martin Wong,” Giant Robot, Summer 1999, p. 48 and 50

Jeffrey Bruce, “Red Brick and Chain Link,” The International Review of African American Art 16, no. 4, 2002, pp. 40-41

Anneliis Beadnell, Vanessa Kam, Marci Kwon, Mark Johnson and Gary Ware, Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné, Stanford, 2022 - ongoing, illustrated in color (online)