Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Warrior No. 10, 2007
Sculpture · ed. 20/25
Phillips · Jun 1, 2024HK$381,000 ≈ $48,734 ≈ £38,337 ≈ €44,908Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Hometown
Yue Minjun (Chinese, b. 1962) · 2005
£321,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ $422,789≈ €360,066
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated 'yue minjun 2005' lower left; further signed and titled in Chinese and dated '2005' on the reverse
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 219.7 x 200 cm (86 1/2 x 78 3/4 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale (UK010717)
- Date
- October 5, 2017
- Location
- London
- Lot
- 129
- Estimate
- £220,000 – £320,000 (≈ $289,762 – $421,472) (≈ €246,774 – €358,944)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2014 and 2017 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Dec 7, 2014 · Ravenel
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2014 Taipei, lot 306
Bought in / unsold · est. NT$17,000,000 – NT$24,000,000
As catalogued
Yue Minjun, “Hometown”, 2005
Oil on canvas
220 x 200 cm
Oct 5, 2017 · Phillips this result
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, lot 129
Sold £321,000Sign up to see · est. £220,000 – £320,000
As catalogued
Yue Minjun, “Hometown”, 2005
oil on canvas
219.7 x 200 cm (86 1/2 x 78 3/4 in.)
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