My Left-Hand-Old Mao
My Left-Hand-Old Mao
My Left-Hand-Old Mao

© Sheng Qi / image courtesy of Lee Berlinsky

My Left-Hand-Old Mao
My Left-Hand-Old Mao
My Left-Hand-Old Mao

Currently not on view

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My Left-Hand-Old Mao,

2006

Sheng Qi 盛奇, born 1965, Anhui, China; active Beijing, London, UK, and Italy
2021-80

Information

Title
My Left-Hand-Old Mao
Dates

2006

Maker
Sheng Qi 盛奇
Medium
Acrylic on canvas with photo
Dimensions
90.2 × 80.2 cm (35 1/2 × 31 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Lee, Claire, and Jack Berlinsky
Object Number
2021-80
Signatures
Signed on back, upper left: “Sheng Qi” in English horizontally and bisected with “Sheng Qi” in Chinese
Culture
Chinese
Type
paintings, photographs
Materials
canvas, photographs, acrylic
Subject
protests, photographs, hands

–2007 798 Avant Gallery (New York, NY), sold to Mr. Lee Berlinsky (Charleston, South Carolina), July 2007.

2007 – 2021 Lee Berlinsky (Charleston, South Carolina), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2021.

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