Chu Teh-Chun (Zhu Dequn)

signed in pinyin and Chinese and dated 64; signed in pinyin and Chinese and dated 1964 on the reverse

Important Private Asian Collection

This work is in excellent condition. There is evidence of scattered white spots across the surface of the work, presumably inherent to the artist’s working method.
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"The nature is Chu Teh-Chun's language, while painting is his expression. Each painting of his is a land of discovery, of revelation and of wondering. Chu mediates his works and discovers new metamorphoses through them."
Pierre Cabanne