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HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s
Hong Kong will present a sale of Fine Chinese Paintings on 4 October
2016 during this year’s Autumn Sale Series at Hall 3 of the Hong Kong
Convention and Exhibition Centre, offering around 300 works by
celebrated artists and calligraphers. Highlights include neverbeen-seen
masterpieces by Fu Baoshi from a European collection, a rich array of
paintings, calligraphy and seal impressions previously in the M K Lau
Collection, as well as an assemblage of works by 20th-century artists
from the Cheng Xin Xuan Collection. The sale is estimated at a total
close to HK$190 million / US$24 million.
C.K. Cheung, Head of Chinese Paintings Department, Sotheby’s, said, ‘This season, we are delighted to once again assemble important and fresh-to-the-market works for our discerning clients, leveraging Sotheby’s unparalleled global network and trusting relationship with collectors. The sale will see historically significant masterpieces – many from major private collections – by distinguished modern Chinese painters and calligraphers, among them include the market debut of masterworks by Fu Baoshi from a European collector, as well as a blue-and-green gongbi brushwork landscape painting, Spring Clouds Amidst Autumn Landscape, by the legendary Zhang Daqian. Another notable highlight is the first ever presentation of seal impressions at Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s Fine Chinese Paintings auction. The opportunity to present a complete picture of Chinese art with a sale that encompasses Chinese calligraphy, Chinese paintings and seals, together in one place, is truly one not to miss!’ Sale Highlights Zhang Daqian (1899 – 1983) Spring Clouds Amidst Autumn Landscape 1948 Ink and colour on paper, framed, 138.5 x 61cm Est. HK$30 – 50 million / US$3.8 – 6.4 million Spring Clouds Amidst Autumn Landscape is a birthday gift from Zhang Daqian to his confidant, Li Qiujun. Zhang and Li’s brother were best friends, and later developed a very close rapport with the rest of his siblings. During Zhang’s travel to Sichuan’s Mount Qincheng, he painted eight landscapes using the mountainscape as his subject matter. In celebrating Li’s birthday, Zhang travelled to her hometown in Shanghai and gifted her with this Gongbi brushwork landscape painting. Masterpieces by Fu Baoshi from a European Collection Fu Baoshi (1904 – 1965) Warriors on the Night March 1945 Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll, 106.2 x 60.7 cm Est. HK$15 – 20 million / US$1.9 – 2.5 million Making its auction debut this October, Fu Baoshi’s Warriors on the Night March was a work dedicated to the father of French-Vietnamese collector Doan (1914 – 1978), and have been kept in a private European collection ever since. Doan was tracing the path of his ancestry and roots in China, and commissioned Fu to use a piece of history related to his Chinese last name as the key context of this painting. Deviating away from the artist’s usual subject matter, Fu drew inspiration and reference from Book of the Later Han, one of the official works documenting the history of the Han Dynasty. He vividly portrayed warriors marching in the night, with their heads solemnly bowed in solidarity. In this work, the artist brilliantly addresses the common issues of traditional Chinese paintings – such as the lack of perspective and distance as well as the relationship between light and shadow – by adding lighter shades and tones to depict an empty space and the moonlight. Fu employs a modern approach through traditional ink medium to express both simplified and intense brushstrokes. Finely detailed, deeply evocative, Warriors on the Night March is a masterful depiction of a 20th-century war scene. Works by 20th Century Artists from the Cheng Xin Xuan Collection Jiang Zhaohe (1904 – 1986) Old Women 1938 Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll, 116 x 53cm Est. HK$1.8 – 2.5 million / US$230,000 – 320,000 Old Women is created by Jiang Zhaohe during the late 1930s which demonstrates traces of realism by portraying the daily lives of the lowest stratum of social class living in Beijing. Based in Beijing during and following the Second Sino-Japanese War, Jiang Zhaohe was a teacher at Jinghua College of Fine Arts and painted numerous works depicting war-era devastation. Merging Eastern and Western painting techniques, Old Women portrays a homeless, elderly Manchu woman in ragged clothing, evoking the artist’s compassion for those left in the wake of conflict. The work’s title is translated in Chinese as Fate of the Manchu, referring to the plight of the Manchus following their fall from power after the Qing dynasty. Calligraphy and Seal Impressions Previously in the M K Lau Collection Xu Beihong (1895–1953) Seal Impressions of Xu Beihong (partial) 1939, Album Each album: 21 x 15.2 cm Est. HK$250,000 – 350,000 / US$32,000 – 45,000 In September 1939, Xu Beihong organised an exhibition in Singapore and stayed with Huang Mangshi during his time there. Huang created two sets of impressions from the seals that Xu used often, and the album on offer at this Autumn Sale is one of the two. The album contains a total of 83 seal impressions, each with an annotation written by Xu to explain whether the seal was for his own use or created for someone else. The seals themselves were crafted by a total of 17 individuals, including seal masters such as Chen Shizeng, as well as Xu’s close friends – Qi Baishi, Yang Zhongzi and Chen Zifen. Calligraphy and Seal Impressions Previously in the M K Lau Collection Qi Baishi (1864 –1957) Book of Seal Impressions A Set of three albums (partial) Each album: 19.5 x 13 cm Est. HK$120,000 – 18,000 / US$15,000 – 23,000 A gift from Qi Baishi to his wife, Hu Baozhu, the seals impressed in this set of three albums were all crafted by Qi Baishi, with an annotation on each album. Majority of the seals documented here were carved by Qi for other people, including families and friends, as well as government officials, scholars and painters such as Ma Lian and Takeuchi SeihÅ. This important collection illustrates Qi’s extensive network and relationships with influential figures from all walks of life |
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Exhibition explores our fascination with gravity | ||
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SYDNEY.- The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
is collaborating for the first time with Penrith Regional Gallery &
The Lewers Bequest to present an exhibition exploring our fascination
with gravity and its invisible governing of the world’s movement, the
shape of space and the flow of time.
Gravity (and Wonder) is presented from 3 September to 27 November 2016 at Penrith Regional Gallery, bringing together the work of leading international and Australian contemporary artists who examine gravity through their practice, including renowned American artist Richard Serra and a new commission by Australian artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding. Director of the Penrith Regional Art Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Dr Lee-Anne Hall comments: “In Gravity (and Wonder) audiences are offered a three-month journey of discovery, where art, science and creativity are brought together in a exciting program including exhibition, education, artist and scientist residencies, performance, public symposium and star-gazing.” This exciting new collaborative exhibition includes a sculpture by Richard Serra; installations by Australian artists Sandra Selig and Amy Joy Watson; paintings by Mabel Juli and Rusty Peters from Warmun, Western Australia; kinetic sculptures by Marley Dawson; and video work by Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa. Australian artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding have been commissioned to create a world-first event where by the artists dropped a sound from the edge of space. Their new work presents vision and sound captured in the process of sending a payload with recording instruments via latex weather balloon to 33700 metres above the earth. At very low pressure the balloon bursts, a parachute partially deploys, and allows the instruments to rapidly descend to the earth. On exhibition are two large format screens adjacent to each other. The screens show two edited excerpts 16 min duration. One screen shows the ascent (slow and lyrical, the arc of the earth appearing) the second screen shows the rapid descent (this piece is particularly exciting to view as we observe the blackness of the upper reaches of the stratosphere become blue sky, and see the earth and its form grow immense. The Aeolian sound of the instrumentation is particularly haunting and is clearly heard when standing in front of the screens. Gravity (and Wonder) presents a vibrant three-month program with a range of events, workshops and programs extending the themes of the central exhibition. The project collaborators are joined by education partner, Western Sydney University, bringing its Penrith Observatory and academic expertise into the project alongside science events to intrigue the community. The works in Gravity (and Wonder), curated by Penrith Regional Gallery Director Dr Lee-Anne Hall and MAAS curator Katie Dyer, explore gravity through scientific investigations and artistic explorations: as phenomena and effect, mass and attraction, motion and acceleration, time and space and ultimately transcendence alongside rare scientific instruments and inventions, specialist objects and archival material from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. |
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