Lot 026
Under the Old Wall
GUAN Liang (Chinese, 1900 - 1986)
c.1940s
Watercolor on paper
29.5 x 33 cm
Estimate
TWD 180,000-280,000
HKD 45,000-69,000
USD 5,700-8,900
CNY 40,000-63,000
Sold Price
TWD 240,000
HKD 61,069
USD 7,846
CNY 55,172
Signature
Signed lower right Guan Liang in Chinese and with a seal of the artist
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist in 1986
Sotheby’s, Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, Taipei, October 17, 1999, lot 117
Acquired from the above by the present owner
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist in 1986
Sotheby’s, Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, Taipei, October 17, 1999, lot 117
Acquired from the above by the present owner
+ OVERVIEW
Guan Liang was the first generation of oil painters in China. He went to Japan to study Western painting techniques in 1917 and was strongly influenced by the Japanese Fauvism of the Impressionists. He devoted his whole life in art creation after returning to China. He was famous for his reformed oil painting with a national tone, and vivid opera figures in Chinese Paintings. Guan Liang not only emphasized the learning of the tradition but also of the modern. His paintings are the reflection of cultural development in today's world as well as contemporaneity. "Under the Old wall" displays the artist's skillfully realistic style, reflecting the artist's claim to incorporate sentiment of Chinese arts into western arts.
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