{"id":178778,"date":"2025-12-07T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178778\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:23:15","slug":"museum-acquires-massive-martin-wong-triptych-from-art-basel-miami-beach-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178778\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum acquires massive Martin Wong triptych from Art Basel Miami Beach – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the largest paintings at Art Basel Miami Beach<\/a>, Martin Wong<\/a>\u2019s 12ft-wide Tai Ping Tien Kuo (Tai Ping Kuo) (1982), sold on Thursday to a US museum for $1.6m. The three-panel composition is on public display, on the stand of the New York-based gallery PPOW<\/a>, for just the second time ever\u2014it was shown at New York\u2019s Asian Arts Institute in 1987 and has been in storage ever since. After Miami Beach, it will be featured in a forthcoming show of Wong\u2019s work at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The painting\u2019s central panel includes a stylised, nude portrait of Wong\u2019s mother and stepfather embracing in a pose reminiscent of William-Adolphe Bouguereau\u2019s painting The Abduction of Psyche (1895). \u201cMartin\u2019s mother hated this painting, so out of respect for her we didn\u2019t show it for decades,\u201d Wendy Olsoff, PPOW\u2019s co-founder, tells The Art Newspaper. \u201cIt\u2019s just rife with references\u2014both to world history and to Martin\u2019s personal history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representatives for the gallery declined to say which \u201cmajor\u201d US museum had acquired the work. Wong was born in Portland, Oregon. He lived in New York City for many years and spent the last five years of his life in San Francisco. He died from Aids-related illness at age 53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the largest paintings at Art Basel Miami Beach, Martin Wong\u2019s 12ft-wide Tai Ping Tien Kuo (Tai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[21256,65887,2065,12581,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,97430,39699],"class_list":{"0":"post-178778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-acquisitions","9":"tag-art-basel-miami-beach-2025","10":"tag-art-fairs","11":"tag-art-market","12":"tag-arts","13":"tag-arts-and-design","14":"tag-artsanddesign","15":"tag-artsdesign","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-martin-wong","21":"tag-ppow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}