Wisdom of the Poor: Living With the Tree
Song Dong
(Chinese, born in 1966)
2005
Medium/TechniqueSteel frame, steel bolts, wooden doors with glass and hardware (salvaged from demolished Beijing courtyard houses), wooden bed frame, wooden platform, polyurethane foam mattress, synthetic bed sheet, elm tree/branch, steel tree support structure
DimensionsOverall (building): 265.4 x 392.1 x 245.1 cm (104 1/2 x 154 3/8 x 96 1/2 in.)
Height x diameter (tree): 450 x 10.2 cm (177 3/16 x 4 in.)
Overall (tree support base): 31.1 x 63.2 x 63.2 cm (12 1/4 x 24 7/8 x 24 7/8 in.)
Overall (bed frame): 69.9 x 153 x 188.6 cm (27 1/2 x 60 1/4 x 74 1/4 in.)
Overall (mattress): 10.2 x 151.4 x 188.3 cm (4 x 59 5/8 x 74 1/8 in.)
Height x diameter (tree): 450 x 10.2 cm (177 3/16 x 4 in.)
Overall (tree support base): 31.1 x 63.2 x 63.2 cm (12 1/4 x 24 7/8 x 24 7/8 in.)
Overall (bed frame): 69.9 x 153 x 188.6 cm (27 1/2 x 60 1/4 x 74 1/4 in.)
Overall (mattress): 10.2 x 151.4 x 188.3 cm (4 x 59 5/8 x 74 1/8 in.)
Credit LineHenry and Lois Foster Contemporary Purchase Fund, Doran Family Fund for Contemporary Artists created in memory of Stephen D. Paine, and Stephen D. and Susan W. Paine Acquisition Fund for 20th Century and Contemporary Art
Accession number2016.234
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ProvenanceSold by the artist to Pace Gallery; 2016, sold by Pace Gallery to the MFA. (Accession date: June 22, 2016)
