Lot 5050
  • 5050

SANYU

Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 HKD
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Description

  • Sanyu
  • Les poèmes de T'ao Ts'ien (total of six works; three in black and the other three in sepia)
  • inscribed H.C.G in the book; inscribed and signed by Liang Tsong Tai in the book
  • etching
executed in 1930, this work is an hors de commerce proof printed on Hollande van Gelder paper

Provenance

Important Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet, Sanyu: l'ecriture du corps, 16 June - 13 September, 2004 (another edition)

Literature

La Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Issue 214, Éditions Gallimard, France, 1931, pp. 163-165
Chen Yanfeng, ed., Overseas Chinese Fine Arts Series: San Yu, Artists Co. Ltd., Taipei, 1995, p. 27
Rita Wong, ed., Sanyu Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings, Yageo Foundation, Lin & Keng Art Publications, Tapei, 1995, p. 50 
Gao Yuzhen et al ed., The Art of San Yu, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1995, pp. 124-125, illustrated in colour 
In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, National Museum of History, Taipei, 2001, fig. 1, p. 150
Sanyu: Language of the Body, Skira, Milan, 2004, plate 55-57, p. 161, illustrated in colour
Gu Yue, ed., World Famous Artist: Sanyu, Hebei Education Press, Shijazhuang, 2010, p. 108
Sanyu: A Pioneering Avant-Garde in Chinese Modernist Art, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, 2013, p. 122-125, illustrated in colour 
Rita Wong, SANYU Catalogue Raisonné: Prints, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2017, pp. 100-107

Condition

These works are in very good condition, and have not been examined out of their frames.
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