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Qiu Deshu
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 HKD
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Description
- Qiu Deshu
- Fissuring - Mountainscape (set of five)
- ink, acrylic and paper on canvas, framed
- 2005
executed in 2005
each signed QIU
each signed QIU
Exhibited
United Kingdom, London, Saatchi Gallery, Ink: The Art of China, 19 June - 5 July, 2012, p. 170
Literature
Kuo, Jason C., Chinese Ink Painting Now, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, USA; Timezone 8, Hong Kong, China, 2010, pp.84-85
Qiu Deshu, Michael Goedhuis Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2012, pp. 24-25
Qiu Deshu, Michael Goedhuis Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2012, pp. 24-25
Condition
Overall in very good condition. Framed size: 211 x 126.5 cm; 83 1/8 x 49 3/4 in. each
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Qiu Deshu is one of the early pioneers of abstraction and ink art recognized in a period of artists reclaiming tradition as their own and breaking new artistic ground. Born in Shanghai, Qiu Deshu studied traditional ink painting and seal carving as a child, but considers his start as an artist as a Red Guard painter during the Cultural Revolution. He cultivated the mentorship of the recognized ink painter Chen Jialing (b. 1937) and they co-founded one of the first experimental art societies, CaoCao Shehui (Grass Society) as an avant-garde independent artists group. Qiu cultivated a distinctive fissuring (liebian) painting collage style using tearing, rubbing, and carving techniques used on xuan paper. In the present work, his explosion of color and dramatic fissuring reveal an image caught between figuration and abstraction. His works have been extensively exhibited around the world in China, Germany, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US, Switzerland, and Australia. His works are present in the collections of the National Art Museum of China; Oxford University, UK; Taichung Provincial Art Museum, Taiwan; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA; Asian Art Museum, South Korea; and Rathaus of Hamburg, Germany.