Judaica
Jun 15, 2018
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242 West 30th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10001
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LOT 358:
XIN, YIN
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Estimated price:
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3,000 - $5,000
Auction house commission:
25%
VAT: On commission only
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Reading of the Torah.
Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated by the artist. Titled on reverse. 38 x 51 inches (97 x 130 cm).
2000
Provenance: The Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.
Depicting the Jews of Kaifeng, Henan Province, China.
Yin Xin was born in 1959 in Kashgar, a remote Muslim town in Turkistan, Western China. During the Cultural Revolution his family were exiled to the Mongolian border where an early exposure to different religions and cultures was his first introduction to art. In 1988, Yin Xin left the rigidness of China to study at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and in 1994, he settled in Paris. In his art, Yin Xin paints the many facets of China, using his perspective to capture earlier periods, portraying the Chinese of the era with a mostly muted palette reminiscent of photography.
