Lot 810
  • 810

SANYU | Les poèmes de T'ao Ts'ien

Estimate
35,000 - 50,000 HKD
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Description

  • Sanyu
  • Les poèmes de T'ao Ts'ien
  • etching
  • book size: 33 by 25.5 by 1.2 cm; 13 by 10 by ½ in. etching size: 19 by 14.5 cm; 7 ½ by 5 ¾ in. (each)
executed in 1930, this work is number 12 from an edition of 290 plus 16 special editions

Provenance

Private European 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, Paris, 1931, p. 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, p. 124-125
In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, National Museum of History, Taipei, 2001, plate 1, p. 150
Sanyu: Language of the Body, Skira, Milan, 2004, plate 55-57, p. 161
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
Rita Wong, SANYU Catalogue Raisonné: Prints, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2017, p. 100-107

Condition

The work is overall in good and its original condition.
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