Lot 5098
  • 5098

SANYU

Estimate
20,000 - 40,000 HKD
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Description

  • Sanyu
  • Les poèmes de T'ao Ts'ien (three works)
  • etching
executed in 1930

Provenance

Important Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet, Sanyu: l'ecriture 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 Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings, Yageo Foundation, Lin & Keng Art Publications, Tapei, 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, Shijazhuang, 2010, p. 108
Sanyu: A Pioneering Avant-Garde in Chinese Modernist Art, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, 2013, p. 122-125, illustrated in colour 
Rita Wong, SANYU Catalogue Raisonné: Prints, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2017, pp. 100-107

Condition

These works are in very good condition, and they had not been examined out of their frames.
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