Lot  271 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2021 Taipei

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2021 Taipei

The Portrait of Henri IV (Roi de France)

Alixe FU (FU Qingli, Ching-Fong) (Chinese-French, 1961)

2012

Oil on canvas

61 x 50 cm

Estimate

TWD 500,000-700,000

HKD 140,000-196,000

USD 18,000-25,100

CNY 117,000-163,000

Sold Price

TWD 600,000

HKD 168,539

USD 21,645

CNY 137,931


Signature

Signed lower left,Ecloe Fransaise XVlll,titled Portrait d'Henri lV and dated 2012

EXHIBITED Alixe FU/Sign Me Portraits Métissé, Galerie Marie Vitoux, Paris, June 18 - July 15, 2015

ILLUSTRATED
ART UP LIFE, China, 2014, color illustrated, cover, p.3, p.19
Alixe FU/Sign Me Portraits Métissé, Galerie Marie Vitoux, Paris, color
illustrated, pp. 252-253
Alixe Fu’s Anti-Retro Art, Amanda Wei Gallery, 2020, color illustrated,
pp. 40-4



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The "Anti-Retro Art" series indeed is an important and unique ensemble of Alixe Fu, where he created in his studio located in the French Ministry of Culture, the National Studio of Van Gogh Village in Paris. It served as a special exhibition of his re-creation between his 33 years of research on Eastern and Western painting texture and oil painting restoration. He rescued the worn- out classical oil paintings from the auction as if he himself had gone through these ancient memories. The dilapidated classical paintings created more than hundreds of years ago were re-created after careful and lengthy cleaning, restoration and re-mounted on a new canvas.

In the past ten years, Alixe Fu created a total of 18 new works in the "Anti- Retro Art" series, commemorating the "stranded" and "pause" conditions in this historical time and space, subverting the beauty of ancient consumerism as beauty has been ruled by demons. The misplaced time and overlapping space awaken dialogues between subconscious and superficial consciousness. They are mutual interdependence in the form of echoing and conflicting with each other, evoking the conversation between the souls from two different worlds.


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Ravenel Autumn Auction 2021 Taipei

Sunday, December 5, 2021, 2:00pm