Lot 5025
  • 5025

Sanyu

Estimate
35,000 - 50,000 HKD
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Description

  • Sanyu
  • Les Poèmes de T'ao Ts'ien
  • signed in Chinese on each lithograph page
  • lithograph book 
  • executed in 1930, this work is number 232 from an edition of 290

Provenance

Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet, Sanyu: l'écriture 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 Caralogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings, Yageo Foundation, Lin & Keng Art Publications, Taipei, 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, Shijiazhuang, 2010, p. 108
Sanyu: A Pioneering Avant-Garde in Chinese Modernist Art, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, 2013, p. 122 - 125, illustrated in colour

Condition

This work is overall in very good condition.
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