Lot 245
Look Far into the Distance from Shue Shan
YANG San-lang (Taiwanese, 1907 - 1995)
Oil on canvas
65 x 80 cm
Estimate
TWD 2,200,000-2,800,000
HKD 537,000-683,000
USD 68,800-87,500
Sold Price
TWD 3,186,000
HKD 735,797
USD 94,991
Signature
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Yang San-lang is a true believer of impressionism; he paid a lot of attention to paint or sketch nature and always took notice on the sunlight as well as different shades in different times. He has high prestige among senior artists in Taiwan, makes every endeavor for art movements and established "Tai-yang Art Society. He received "National Culture Medal", it is the highest honor of art one could receive in the country, his ability capturing touching moments and vitality in nature, his utilizing the space through different layers, and his presenting his mind through art, is the best in all artists.
This piece "Look Far into the Distance from Shue Shan" has multiple layers of brush strokes to build up the muscles of the mountains, it also shows how magniicent these mountains are after Yang's touch. Brush after brush, color after color, he created a beautiful picture of nature. In order to capture the actual face of nature, he carried his tools step by step towards the holy mountain in his heart and painted it with his paintbrush. Mountains rise and fall, entwine, Yang's passion, praise, drawings and his love for mountains drive him to go from Yu-Shan, Huhuan Mountain, Dabajian Mountain, Ali Shan to the Himalayas, he has a heart caring for art, has no dread for traveling the world, challenges nature. Looking into this piece, we see the color olive brown changing with time, it shows thousands of looks of the mountain which is astonishing.
The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art, Japanese & Korean Contemporary Art
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2008 Taipei
Sunday, December 7, 2008, 12:00am