Lot  148 Ravenel Spring Auction 2012 Taipei

Ravenel Spring Auction 2012 Taipei

Composition No. 203

CHU Teh-chun (Chinese-French, 1920 - 2014)

1965

Oil on canvas

65 x 54 cm

Estimate

TWD 3,600,000-4,600,000

HKD 935,000-1,195,000

USD 121,200-154,900

Sold Price

TWD 9,600,000

HKD 2,487,047

USD 320,963


Signature

Signed lower right CHU TEH-CHUN in Chinese and English

Signed on the reverse CHU TEH-CHUN in English and Chinese, titled No. 203 and dated 1965

+ OVERVIEW

Moving to Paris could be the most important event in the long span of Chu's art career, there were many schools of western abstract paintings since the late '50s, and many of art were influenced by eastern philosophies. Chu went to Paris with his profound oriental thinking, and absorbed the postwar western cultures. Maybe it's due to his modest characteristics, add his later established abstract painting style some western particularities, and this unique style is not the result of using only what he's good at.

Unlike other artists, when Chu commences to paint, he doesn't set a theme or create a scratchy form beforehand, but absolutely free and unrestrained isn't the attitude for such an artist who placed paintings as the most important thing in his life as well, the source of his paintings came from his understandings of nature, he discovered his love for nature, and this stimulates him to paint. When standing in front of the canvas, the artist can no longer hide his feelings, from a viewer's point, their private feelings could be encouraged, although there are titled for each of Chu's paintings, however the viewers can still keep their own way of sensing, to dig, to run in, or even to study it, and what Chu created is an organic environment on the canvas, all the characteristics or ways of thinking could find their place to be released.

Related Info

Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Spring Auction 2012 Taipei

Sunday, June 3, 2012, 2:30pm