In the golden month of October, China Guardian Hong Kong Autumn Auction will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center from October 3 to 8. Coinciding with the 120th anniversary of the birth of Wu Dayu, the pioneer of Chinese modern art and a generational art master, and the large-scale retrospective exhibition of Zao Wou-ki at the China Academy of Art Museum in Hangzhou, the "Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art" department specially plannedThe special topic "Shape and Rhythm Strives for Brilliance" brings together the important masterpieces of 13 artists from the East and the West who have outstanding expressions of form, line and color.will be presentedZhao WujiFrom the collection of celebrities, "Twin Peaks" shows the unity of nature and man.Zhu DequnThe majestic "Broad", which uses the color of green mountains and rivers to express the prosperity and peace of the prosperous age, as well as a series of auras on paper from the 1960s and 1970s,Lin FengmianThe rare Peking Opera masterpiece "Luhuadang" and classic paintings of ladies are exciting to look forward to.

One of the highlights
Celebrity collection, the birth of my true painting language
The Peach Blossom Dream in Zao Wou-Ki's "Twin Peaks"
 

"Twin Peaks", completed between 1952 and 1953, is Zao Wou-ki's masterpiece in this autumn auction. The sources of the works are in order.The earliest works came from the well-known Galerie Pierre Loeb in Paris, which was the first to sign an agency contract with Zao Wou-Ki.It is carefully collected by Larry Aldrich, a well-known American fashion designer with a rich collection of masters of Impressionism and Expressionism, and Roland and Waltraut Hänssel, founders of the famous Western art publishing house Manus Presse. First appearance on the Asian auction market, rare and rare.

In 1951, Zao Wou-Ki's creations were inspired by Paul Klee. Like an epiphany, he began to re-examine his Eastern parent culture and extract the essence from it. His creations entered an important and critical turning point, entering the world of "symbolization". In "Twin Peaks", he chose green as the main color, like the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Through the rich changes in color gradation and brightness, he created a sense of history with a vastness like the Han Dynasty stele. This green color is also a symbol of the earth. The natural color in it symbolizes "the origin of life".

Following the Eastern aesthetics of "using simplicity to control complexity", Zao Wou-ki used powerful lines as thin as copper engravings to outline from top to bottom: the vast sky, the spanning full moon, the symbolic distant mountains, the blue waves, the wind, and the lingering stream. The river and a row of buildings symbolizing the crystallization of human civilization. Among them, the building with twin towers on the far left subtly echoes the appearance of Notre Dame de Paris. In front of it, right in the center of the entire painting, a road with a strong perspective unfolds before our eyes, as if welcoming the viewer to enter the world in the painting.In it, the universe is condensed into three simple elements: sky, mountains, rivers and buildings, giving people a strong sense of tranquility and tolerance as Zhuangzi said, "Heaven and earth coexist with me, and all things are one with me."The few finishing touches of red next to the full moon strengthen the natural magic and mysterious power of the red moon shining in the sky, reminding people of what is described in the new poem "Happy Moon":"Tonight there is no wind, red lights hang in the blue sky, there is a grand event in the world, and everyone is looking at the Toad Palace.", fascinating. Under the vibrant nature of the painting,Western-style symbolic architecture shines with the miracle of human civilization and sings the joy, hope and yearning of contemporary people. It shines brightly!

Wonderful lot 2
Peace in the prosperous age, energy flowing through Changhong
Chu Teh-chun's masterpiece about majestic mountains and rivers is presented for the first time
 

"Broadness" was completed in 1986, when Chu Teh-chun's artistic career was at its peak.At that time, the artist frequently traveled between Europe and Asia. In addition to traveling around the mountains and rivers of his motherland, he also held the largest touring exhibition in fifteen art museums and art institutions in Taiwan from 1988 to 1989. "Broadness" is the highlight of the exhibition's magnificent scale. The work adopts a horizontal perspective and uses an exquisite layout of one east and one west, one dense and one sparse, and one piece and one piece to relax, creating countless mountains and rivers that span the four seas and swallow up all the wilderness.

The work inherits the elegance of "green landscapes" in Chinese ink painting, and uses the secret color of the kilns described by the Tang Dynasty poet Lu Guimeng as "the wind and dew of Kyushu bloom over the kilns, capturing the green color of thousands of peaks" to spread out the world.In the center of the left side of the painting, the light source is like opening a treasure box between heaven and earth, and the jade light pours out, spreading the hope of spring and the power of dawn to the world like sweet rain. There are green spots of moss, ochre-like earth, bright orange, crimson, yellow, rose purple and other rich color spots leaping in it. The light and flying white brush strokes seem to imitate the cool water, wandering wind and ethereal nature in nature. The clouds glow with rich visual perception.

Under the brilliance, the large, open and closed brushes move vertically and horizontally with the charm of cursive script. Through the changes of the five colors of ink, three-dimensional blocks and overlapping brushes are used to construct thousands of rocks and ravines, making the work It has the unique charm of the mountains in Song Dynasty paintings. On the right side, a powerful stroke of thick ink starts from the right end, stirring up the tension of the rainbow. The gossamer-like flying white is like a flying spring washing jade, flying dragons and dancing phoenixes in the sky and earth, capturing both majesty and freshness. The audience can also follow the brushstrokes in the painting and climb up here to take in a panoramic view of the vast world where the river flows eastward and the rapids echo. What is special among them is the calligraphy lines in the lower right area of ​​the work.The word "peace" appears in the painting, which echoes the artist's spiritual feelings when he visited China many times and witnessed the new China after the reform and opening up. The work embodies his wish for the "prosperity and peace" of the motherland, which is of unique significance. . The work has been collected by an important private collector in Asia for more than thirty years. It is released for the first time and should be treasured by those who know it.

Highlights 3
Yin and Yang are all things, shining brightly in the world
Chu Teh-Chun's aura on paper as he travels between Eastern and Western artistic paths
 

In "Untitled", Chu Teh-Chun used red and black, two of the most contrasting colors, to create a harmonious symbiosis of "Yang" and "Yin", which inspired the "Yin and Yang cutting off the dusk" in the works of Du Fu, a master of the Tang Dynasty. The divine show of creation!The diagonal structure divides the world of light and darkness in half, and they penetrate each other in the movement of charm, sometimes leisurely, sometimes agitated. This also shows the 1969 Rembrandt (Rembrandt) retrospective exhibition. The profound influence of Chu Teh-Chun's creation in 1970.

On the right side of the picture, a powerful brush made of black ink breeds all the possibilities of the netherworld in the deep substance. Then to the left, a trembling flying short pen burst out, stirring up the most dazzling brilliance, light yellow, inscribed yellow, orange, rose red, ocher, pouring out from the brightest light source point in the center, and then the trembling ink dots became more and more brilliant. With the ups and downs of cursive script, endless energy emerges from the abstract realm,It presents the viewer with a glorious scene that is like a volcano erupting, karsts are shining, or the sun is rising in the east and spring is returning to the earth.! In this symphony of "color and power", the work explores the vastness beyond consciousness in a limited frame, and stirs the pulse of inner poetry with rich natural imagination.

Highlights No. 4
The bells are beautiful, the autumn fragrant and the maples are red
 

Completed in 1970, "Untitled" is inspired by the dual inspirations of Fan Kuan and Rembrandt, one from the east and the other from the west. It uses lyrical brushwork, virtual and real light and shadow to show Chu Teh-Chun's take on traditional landscapes and Western classics. A long, complementary and wonderful statement.Echoing the classic vertical composition of vertical scrolls in calligraphy and painting, this work uses the elegant reddish-brown color that covers the sky and the earth to show a landscape painting from a long time ago: in it, thousands of rocks compete with each other, thousands of valleys compete with streams, autumn enters the clouds and mountains, the scenery is natural and unrestrained, and all kinds of scenery are worth mentioning. picture. Chu Teh-Chun writes with the rhythm of calligraphy, moving rapidly vertically and horizontally from top to bottom. As he sweeps, he leaves behind traces of brush that look like flying white movements, and emerges an abstract brushwork full of rhythm. With a dash of speeding brushwork as the core, the side and side edges, pushing and pulling back and forth, form a series of mountains that "look like ridges when viewed from the side and peaks when viewed from the side," presenting a majestic mountain like Fan Kuan, a master of the Northern Song Dynasty.

At the same time, the painting fully integrates Rembrandt-style light and shadow, focusing and progressively focusing the space on a beam of light at the core. Under the central light, the brick red of the maple forest and the inscribed yellow of the lights complement each other. The dark black and mud brown lingering on the earth are rippling with the charm of the fallen leaves returning to their roots, showing the"The light frost intoxicates the maple leaves, and the pale moon hides the reed flowers."poetic and picturesque.

Highlights No. 5
Hidden edge at the bottom of the wrist, the way of life
Ode to loyalty and bravery in the reed pond
 

Looking at Lin Fengmian's creations, "figure painting" is a very exemplary part, especially the opera characters with "full of vitality and fascinating style" that are applauded. This is an honor to present fromWang Leung-fu, an important collector in Hong Kong, purchased the opera character "Lu Huadang" from the Chung Chiao Department Store in Hong Kong in the early 1980s and has been collecting it for more than 40 years. It is one of only 11 works of this theme that can be found in the world. It is extremely rare..

The work is selected from the final scene of the Peking Opera "Three Qi Zhou Yu" - the wonderful moment when Zhang Fei captures Zhou Yu and the sword is at war. It follows the artist's classic square formation, giving the characters in the play a fearless posture standing tall on the sky and the earth. To show the protagonist in time"A comprehensive sense of continuity"In this painting, Lin skillfully combines the dynamic sense of Chinese folk shadow puppetry and his in-depth study of Cubism since the 1950s, using distinctive geometric shapes to show the characteristics of the characters in the painting: Zhang Fei uses a round straw hat and a long lapel belt. The leopard's head and eyes are shaped like a trapezoid and a triangular gyro, respectively, highlighting its bravery. Its sickle-shaped arms form a semicircular ring structure, which is an interesting combination with the attacker's arms stretched out vertically and horizontally. of comparison.

The clothing and lunge postures of the two people's lower bodies are playfully unified in parallel, masterfully grasping the interactive relationship between the two people, one opening and one closing, one attack and one defense. The facial makeup, beard and hair, laurel wreaths, and clothing belts are made of navy blue, inscription yellow, jet black, ocher red, grass green and other colors to set off each other. There are circles in the square and edges in the circles, permeating the expression of opposites and harmony.The rich ink and color of Peking Opera is transformed into a song that interweaves power and beauty, good and evil, history and reality.
 

Highlights No. 6
The style is mine, reflecting the past and present
The graceful and confident aesthetic ideal in Lin Fengmian's works
 

And the other one is also from"Lady" collected by Wang Liangfu combines the subtle elegance of Eastern ladies and the feminine aura of Western plump bodies., using rectangular paper material to deliberately heighten the body proportions of the protagonist and create an elegant temperament. The gentle and smooth line drawing inherits the skill of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, and uses the full body feeling of a Western-style nude woman to show a simple and tense form.

The woman in the painting is in a sitting position instead of the lying posture common in Western figure paintings, showing a sense of axial symmetry. The makeup is full of modernity, showing a sweet and elegant modern feature. The grid pattern of the window screen in the background reveals the flow of light and shadow between the hair and body in the hazy light. The elegant purple flowers on the right are in full bloom in a porcelain vase that resembles a jade pot and spring vase, lending a sense of classical beauty to the modern lady in the painting.The work uses a pure modeling language to reconcile Chinese and Western styles, revealing a confident new era style in its elegance, internalizing the aesthetic pursuit of classical and modern times, and externalizing Lin Fengmian's artistic ideals and spiritual character.

China Guardian Hong Kong 2023 Autumn Auction
Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art
 
Preview and Auction
auction
October 8th│10am

Preview
October 3 - 6 | 10am - 8pm
October 7 | 10am - 6pm
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center | Exhibition Hall 5BC
 

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