Bidspirit auction | Xue Wang, Hush!, 2013

Xue Wang, Hush!, 2013 - This contemporary figurative painting, titled Hush!, is rendered in a pop surrealist style on a fine-weave stretched canvas. The composition features two young women with exaggerated, large eyes set within a darkened interior with ornate wall moldings. The foreground figure has dark hair and holds a single lit candle. Directly behind her stands a second, translucent figure with silver hair. A black cat with glowing orange-red eyes sits on a patterned floral rug in the background. The work exhibits smooth brushwork and a soft, illustrative finish. The painting is housed in an ornate gilded wooden frame with an acanthus leaf and bead-and-cove profile, featuring a flat white wooden inner liner. The corner contains the painted white characters XUE (photo 2). A stylized gold calligraphic monogram is visible in the lower left corner (photo 3).