WU Guanzhong
Chinese 1919 - 2010
Born in Yixing, Jiangsu. Wu Guanzhong's training in Western art began at the Hangzhou National College of Art in 1936 under Lin Fengmian (1900-1991). After his graduation in 1942, he obtained a teaching position at the National Chung-ching University. He then traveled to France where he spent the next four years studying oil painting under Professor Jean Souverbie (1891-1981) at the Ecole Nationale Sup rieure des Beaux Arts and the ateliers of Andr Lhote (1885-1962) and Othon Frieze (1879-1949). He has painted in oil since 1950, even during the Cultural Revolution. His international fame is evident in two recent exhibitions of his traditional oil paintings at the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco (1989-90) and the British Museum in London (1993). Hong Kong Museum of Art and National Museum of History in Taipei held solo exhibitions of Wu's work in 1995 and in 1997 respectively.
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Palm Trees
Carbonic ink and pen on paper
41.5(L) x 31(W) cm
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Estimate
169,000 - 247,000 650,000 - 950,000 21,900 - 32,000
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Landscape
1999
Ink and color on paper
20(L) x 70(W) cm
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Estimate
597,000 - 1,091,000 2,300,000 - 4,200,000 77,400 - 141,400
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Sold Price
683,938 2,640,000 88,265
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Black Roof Wall
1987
Ink and color on rice paper
94.5(L) x 88(W) cm
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Estimate
2,000,000 - 4,000,000 7,700,000 - 15,400,000 254,800 - 509,600
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Sold Price
2,160,000 8,307,692 278,351
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Plum Blossom in the Snow
1992
Ink and color on paper
70(L) x 140(W) cm
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Estimate
2,800,000 - 4,200,000 11,480,000 - 17,220,000 359,000 - 538,500
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Sold Price
6,600,000 25,384,615 847,240
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Spring to the North
1996
Oil on canvas
93(L) x 61(W) cm
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Estimate
9,000,000 - 15,000,000 34,200,000 - 57,000,000 1,184,200 - 1,973,700
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Sold Price
12,400,000 45,925,926 1,593,830
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Hometown
1980 - 1989
Ink and color on paper
44(L) x 68(W) cm
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Estimate
1,100,000 - 1,700,000 4,510,000 - 6,970,000 144,400 - 223,100
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Sold Price
1,080,000 4,440,789 138,639
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Wisteria
1956
Watercolor on paper
28(L) x 39(W) cm
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Estimate
471,000 - 706,000 2,000,000 - 3,000,000 61,200 - 91,700
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Sold Price
404,819 1,680,000 52,239
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The Flying White of Waterfalls
1983
Ink and color on paper
70(L) x 140(W) cm
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Estimate
1,412,000 - 2,118,000 6,000,000 - 9,000,000 183,500 - 275,200
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Sold Price
1,677,108 6,960,000 216,418
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Viewing Fish at Flower Harbour
1977
Ink and color on paper
40(L) x 35(W) cm
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Estimate
326,000 - 558,000 1,400,000 - 2,400,000 41,800 - 71,600
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Sold Price
335,545 1,416,000 43,303
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The Blooming Mountain
1996
Oil on canvas
60(L) x 93(W) cm
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Estimate
2,800,000 - 4,500,000 11,480,000 - 18,450,000 359,000 - 576,900
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Sold Price
6,460,000 28,086,957 833,548
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