December Auction Season In Mainland China | Detailed Introduction on Selected Lots of Modern and Contemporary Art
In the December auction season at Mainland China, Yongle Auctions, Guardian, Holly's International and many other auction houses will present 5 modern & contemporary art evening sales in this season. Nearly 500 lots have brought together a rich and diverse collection of Western and Asian masterpieces. Including classic works by artists such as Zao Wou-Ki, Wu Guanzhong, San Yu, Zhou Chunya, Robert Rauschenberg, Yan Peiming, Zeng Fanzhi, Giorgio De Chirico and others. Now, please follow ArtPro to focus on the upcoming auctions in Mainland China.
Rocks And Clouds of Zhou Chunya
Rocks And Clouds is the largest work in Zhou Chunya's "Mountain Rock" series. This work is different from the "Mountain Rock" series in 1990s: the picture appears more ethereal. This work should be majestic and heavy, with the upper half of the smoke and clouds from a far, the rocks below are solid and tightly lined up, with proper density. In Rocks And Clouds, green and red are integrated into a large area of gray tones. Although there is no strong color, it increases the momentum of the work, with a magnificent visual effect.
Standing tt of Zhou Chunya
Standing tt shows the collision between the implicit oriental art and the passion of Western art in Zhou Chunya's paintings. The work have found a point of convergence between Chinese and Western aesthetics. Different from the exaggerated style of the early Green Dog series, Standing tt is more realistic. On the huge white canvas, tt stands sideways, with a sculptural three-dimensional effect. This is the only standing tt in the same group of works, that is more dynamic with the wildness of a wolf.
Tiger of Zeng Fanzhi
Tiger is among the works of recent years, the best example of Zeng Fanzhi's continuous innovation and exploration of painting. The 4 x 4 square meter scale of Tiger belongs to a special category in his works. Beginning in 2012, the artist has created a small number of paintings in this square pattern, through nearly ten years, he formed a system of its own. What they have in common is that they are huge in size, magnified in shape, focused on facial close-ups, with round shape in square. Tiger is the first work in this category that appeared on the auction market and has never been exposed to public before.
Black Rose Of Memory Or Dance of Mao Yan
Mao Yan has always been famous with his conceptual portrait paintings. Black Rose Of Memory Or Dancing was created in 1996, it is one of the best works from his "portrait of friends" period. In this painting, the character in black clothes is a student of Mao Yan. The picture is dominated by gray tones, the figure is dressed in black and stretching his arms, like dancing or flying. This painting has completely surpassed the appearance, and has advanced to highlight the real meaning of the body and the more secret but more important behind the expression.
Shanghai Children of Yan Peiming
Shanghai Children is a questionnaire made by Yan Peiming on "Lifestyles" and "Social Issues". There are a total of 21 works in this series, which were made by Yan Peiming specifically for the French Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The portrait of a child is painted on both sides of the painting, and the final result is a total of 42 portraits of children. They may laugh, cry, anger, or calm, with faces of various expression, appearing in a naked and powerful visual effect and a collective way.
Yellow Chrysanthemums Against Red Background of San Yu
The yellow chrysanthemum depicted by San Yu in Yellow Chrysanthemums Against Red Background stands independently against a red background. He deliberately minimizes the color elements. Under the boldly laid red background, the desktop, glass vases and clusters of chrysanthemums are outlined with dense lines, and painted in light yellow. This monochromatic treatment exudes simplicity. In his paintings, he adopts both Chinese and Western forms in terms of line expression, space composition, and use of colors. While his works reveal oriental philosophies, they also echoing with modern aesthetics.
04.01.79 of Zao Wou-Ki
04.01.79 is a large-scaled masterpiece, one of Zao Wou-Ki's most representative works in 1970s. In 04.01.79, Zao Wou-Ki broke the boundaries between "virtual" and "real" through the collision of colors. Mountains, valleys, clouds and mist are intertwined in the painting, transitioning from both sides to the center and finally integrated into the white fog that is the most intense conflict in the picture. Different from the fullness of Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism in the painting, Zao Wou-Ki continued to deliberate blanking of Song and Yuan landscapes in the painting.
Early Spring in the Sonth of Wu Guanzhong
Early Spring in the South was created in 1985. The main feature of the works in this period is to delete the complex details and simplify, to complete the plane division with large color blocks, the images are not limited to the subjects nor forms. The colors in Early Spring in the South are also very sophisticated, except for the white walls, only the sky and trees of the late winter and early spring. The white walls are like snow, the trees are pale and dense with sharp contrast. The greenery shows between the branches, the spring swallows have returned, and the scenery of the water town is on paper that shows the early spring of Jiangnan. It is worth mentioning that there are 6 works by Wu Guanzhong are up for sale in this auction.
Kilimanjaro Snow Mountain of Wu Guanzhong
Kilimanjaro Snow Mountain is one of Wu Guanzhong's representative landscape paintings in the 1970s. It is an important exploration of his artistic creation and a perfect fusion of "oil and ink". In this painting, senior ash is used to handle the various color relationships in the whole picture. In a world that should have been snow-white, Wu Guanzhong presents a gorgeous gray with different tones and brightness.
Taihu Fishing Boat of Liu Haisu
Taihu Fishing Boat is a famous piece of Haisu, and it is also his oil painting with the most published records in auctions so far. It can be seen in several important retrospective exhibitions of Liu Haisu's life. Taihu Fishing Boat is painted on the waterfront of Yuan Tou Zhu of Taihu Lake in Wuxi. "Zhu" means the land that extends into the water. The space between "Zhu" is a natural harbor. There are 15 "Zhu" along the shore of Wuxi Binhu District of Taihu Lake. "Yuan Tou Zhu" is the most famous one, and it has appeared in Haisu's works for many times. After the fishermen finished their work, the boat sailed into the harbor, "a wooden boat makes one home, each family collects nets and dry them at home." Haisu is describing this scene of poem with his painting.
Kennel Club (Scenarios) of Robert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg passed away in 2008. The Scenarios series was created from 2002 to 2006. It is the representative of Rauschenberg’s creation in his later years. In addition to using the photo transfer technique since 1992, it also shows his anti-commercial perspective. Rauschenberg used the method of color transfer to collage the color printed photos on a multi-layer cardboard, juxtaposing the square images of the photo and the white negative space on the screen, forming a side-by-side narrative that shows the daily life of cities, suburbs and the countryside in US.
Piazza D’italia - Pomeriggio D’estate of Giorgio De Chirico
Chirico takes the city as the motif of his creation, and digs into the hidden human nature from various urban structures. The overall picture of Piazza D’italia - Pomeriggio D’estate is divided by clear straight lines, and the spatial depth is broaden by the arrangement of several close-to-geometric shapes in the spatial perspective. This work was created in 1970s, compared with his earlier series of dim and restless "Piazza D’italia", the creative colors of this period are more saturated, the style is brighter, and the atmosphere is more quite.
