Lot 539
  • 539

Li Xubai

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 HKD
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Description

  • Li Xubai
  • A Spring Mountain Dream Voyage
  • ink and colour on paper, framed
  • 2008
signed XUBAI, inscribed, dated 2008, and with four seals of the artist

Exhibited

United Kingdom, London, Saatchi Gallery, Ink: The Art of China, 19 June - 5 July, 2012, p. 140

Literature

Kuo, Jason C., Chinese Ink Painting Now, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, USA; Timezone 8, Hong Kong, China, 2010, pp.38-39

Condition

Overall in very good condition. Framed size: 142.2 x 266.7 cm; 56 x 105 in.
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Catalogue Note

Born in Fujian, Li Xubai is a poet and contemporary painter recognized for his lyrical landscapes that are derived from classical Chinese painting. After studying Chinese classical literature, poetry and landscape painting under the female artist and poet Liu Heng (1895–1998), Li moved to Hong Kong in 1979 to work as an editor for The World of Collectors and Dragon Roots Art Magazine. Inspired by masters such as Gong Xian (1618 – 1689), Li's paintings exude empathy and compassion towards nature and his homeland of China. He has exhibited extensively between Asia and North America, and his work is held in collections in the Chinese American Fine Arts Society in Boston, the Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong and the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen.