Auction Ends: Jul 15, 2011 05:00 PM EDT

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Ai Weiwei: A Pair of Sunflower Seeds

Item Number: 199

Estimated Value: Priceless
Opening Bid: 500 USD

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Item Description

Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei commissioned workshops in Jingdezhen, China to make 100 million unique, hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds. Then they were transported to London and spread across the turbine hall floor of the Tate Gallery in a thick blanket. It was a thing to behold: static and gray in one sense, and in another sense, absorbing and colorful.

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