Water village
Guanzhong WU (Yixing, Jiangsu 1919 - Peking 2010)
Lot-No. 324
China, end of 20th cent. Ink/Watercolour on paper, mi. le. sign. in Chinese 'Wu Guanzhong' (吳冠中), dat. 1987 and artist's seal 'Wu Guanzhong yin' (吳冠中印), up. le. seal 'Bashi nian dai' (八十年代) and lo. ri. seal 'Guanzhong xiesheng' (冠中寫生). In glass frame, on silk mounting, unopened. 68 x 138 cm. - Prov.: from an old private German collection. - Modern Chinese painter and one of ist most important representatives, first studies in technical engineering, 1936-1942 education as a painter in Hangzhou, pupil of Pan Tianshou (1897-1971) and Lin Fengmian (1900-1991), 1947-1950 trip to Paris, studies in European Modern Art, special influence by the work of Van Gogh and Gaugin, after his return art professor in Beijing and various study trips to the Chinese provinces, banned during the troubles of Cultural Revolution, spent years in the countryside as a peasant, after his return to Beijing in 1975 important voice of Chinese modern painting, first large solo exhibition in 1979, awarded with the French order 'des Arts et des lettres' in 1991, solo exhibition in the British Museum, London in 1992. - Lit.: Anne Farrer [ed.], Wu Guanzhong: A Twentieth Century Chinese Painter, London 1992; Fong Yuk Yan, Wu Guanzhong: Connoisseur's Choice, 2 Bd., Beijing 2003.
Guanzhong WU: Water village
Guanzhong WU (Yixing, Jiangsu 1919 - Peking 2010)
Water village
Lot-No. 324
China, end of 20th cent. Ink/Watercolour on paper, mi. le. sign. in Chinese 'Wu Guanzhong' (吳冠中), dat. 1987 and artist's seal 'Wu Guanzhong yin' (吳冠中印), up. le. seal 'Bashi nian dai' (八十年代) and lo. ri. seal 'Guanzhong xiesheng' (冠中寫生). In glass frame, on silk mounting, unopened. 68 x 138 cm. - Prov.: from an old private German collection. - Modern Chinese painter and one of ist most important representatives, first studies in technical engineering, 1936-1942 education as a painter in Hangzhou, pupil of Pan Tianshou (1897-1971) and Lin Fengmian (1900-1991), 1947-1950 trip to Paris, studies in European Modern Art, special influence by the work of Van Gogh and Gaugin, after his return art professor in Beijing and various study trips to the Chinese provinces, banned during the troubles of Cultural Revolution, spent years in the countryside as a peasant, after his return to Beijing in 1975 important voice of Chinese modern painting, first large solo exhibition in 1979, awarded with the French order 'des Arts et des lettres' in 1991, solo exhibition in the British Museum, London in 1992. - Lit.: Anne Farrer [ed.], Wu Guanzhong: A Twentieth Century Chinese Painter, London 1992; Fong Yuk Yan, Wu Guanzhong: Connoisseur's Choice, 2 Bd., Beijing 2003.