LALAN (XIE JINGLAN) | Extended Figure

Estate of the artist
Private Collection, Hong Kong

Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, My Vision of Paradise: Retrospective of Lalan's Art, 2009; catalogue, p. 29
Taipei, National Museum of History; Macau, Macau Museum of Art, Fragrence of the Mind: A Retrospective of Lalan's Work, 2010; catalogue, p. 29

The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. Each of the four corners of the canvas are slightly wavy. Under Ultra Violet Light inspection tiny areas with in-paintings fluoresce along the edges close to the rims - certainly due to former framing together with one small area along the lower edge towards to center. This work is in very good condition.
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Over five decades Xie Jin Lang  (nicknamed Lalan)  blended the worlds of painting and music, much like she combined her Chinese roots and her life in France. Her paintings drew both on Oriental traditions, such as calligraphic motifs and smoky effects, and the gestural techniques of the French Art Informel movement. She choreographed her paintings like her performances – paint pirouettes, slides and sweeps over the canvas. As she used to explain, her career trajectory – this dance – was fluid and ever changing.