Lot 2508
  • 2508

Long Chin-San

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 HKD
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Description

  • Long Chin-San
  • The Raft
  • signed, titled and stamped with the artist's seal
  • gelatin silver print
executed in 1930

Provenance

Important Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Charleroi, 1936 (another edition)
Lincoln, 1937 (another edition)
Lisbon, 1937 (another edition)
Scranton, 1937 (another edition)
Amsterdam, 1937 (another edition)
Boston , 1937 (another edition)
Detroit, 1937 (another edition)
G.E. Mechanic Institute, 1937 (another edition)
Gallon Press, 1937 (another edition)
Monaco, 1937 (another edition)
Toulouse, 1937 (another edition)
Birkenhead, 1937 (another edition)
Derby Railway Institute, 1937 (another edition)
South Shields, 1937 (another edition)
Ilford, 1937 (another edition)
Portsmouth, 1937 (another edition)
41st Annual South London, England, (Diploma), 1937 (another edition)
Los Angeles, 1938 (another edition)
U Mostu, 1938 (another edition)
Courtrai, 1938 (another edition)
Hackney , 1939 (another edition)
Weymouth, 1939 (another edition)
Runcon, 1939 (another edition)
X International Bruxelles, Belgium, 1939 (another edition)
RydeI, 1939 (another edition)
Zagreb, 1940 (another edition)
Newport, 1941 (another edition)
Nottingham, 1946 (another edition)
Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Idylic Composite Pictures By Chin-San Long, 1 September – 4 December, 1988 (another edition)
Wuhan, Hubei Provincial Museum, LANDSCAPE ON NEGATIVES – A Special Exhibition of Long Chih-San's Photographic Works, 10 April – 10 June, 2012 (another edition)
Hefei, An Hui Museum, LANDSCAPE ON NEGATIVES – A Special Exhibition of Long Chih-San's Photographic Works, 15 June – 18 August, 2012 (another edition)

Literature

Photographic Works of Chin-San Long, The Photographic Society of China, Taipei, 1972
Photographic Art By Chin-San Long, The Photographic Society of China, Taipei, 1987,  p. 87
Idylic Composite Pictures By Chin-San Long, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 1988, p. 103
The Spirit and The Composite Pictures, Lang Chin-San, Hsiung-Shih Art Publisher, Taipei, 2004, p. 55
Hubei Provincial Museum, ed., LANDSCAPE ON NEGATIVES – A Special Exhibition of Long Chih-San’s Photographic Works, Cultural Relics Press, Beijing, 2012, p. 18

Condition

The work is in its original condition. There are minor wrinkles on the upper and lower right corners which is only visible under very close inspection.
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