Lot 271
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
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
+ OVERVIEW
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.
Modern & Contemporary Art
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2021 Taipei
Sunday, December 5, 2021, 2:00pm