Last Supper by Zeng Fanzhi image Chinese Avantgarde
In Zeng’s painting, Jesus looks like Obama to me and they are all wearing uniforms which remind me of “boy scout” uniforms. Judas is distinguished by his yellow tie. They seem to be eating water melons.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
A painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold for US$23.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Saturday night in Hong Kong, setting a new record price for a work by an Asian contemporary artist.
Titled “The Last Supper” and inspired by the Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century mural of the same name, the large painting–almost 13 feet wide–was sold after a bidding war that lasted over 10 minutes between two buyers on the phone. A crowd of 600 people in a packed room at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre applauded several times as the prices slowly escalated up to the final result.
The winning bidder, who paid more than the presale estimate of 80 (Million) Hong Kong dollars (US$10.3 million) was not identified by the firm.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper (Wikipedia)
1495-1498. Photographic reproduction: Copyright 2006-2007 HAL9000 S.r.l.
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