Lot  61 Ravenel Spring Auction 2006

Ravenel Spring Auction 2006

Eternity

WU Guanzhong (Chinese, 1919 - 2010)

1997

Ink and color on paper

45 x 48 cm

Estimate

TWD 2,500,000-3,500,000

USD 76,900-107,700

Sold Price

TWD 2,360,000

USD 73,669


Signature

Dated upper right 1997 in Chinese
Titled center left Eternity in Chinese
Signed lower leftWu Guanzhong in Chinese
With two seals of the artist

+ OVERVIEW

Guanzhong recalled the fairness of his homeland in Neturning to Homeland? the theme that he always wanted to paint is his homeland, Jiangnan. Wu Guanzhong's hometown is in Yixing, Jiangsu, it'S on the west side of the land of waters, Taihu, and his house in Yixing is the typical three-way building. According to the artist, all he saw when he was young was houses with white walls and black roofs, companied by bridges and creeks, very elegant. Wu Guanzhong painted many Jiangnan landscapes, and he made them look very elegant and poetic.

Wu Guanzhong is world famed for his oil paintings, however, he returned to discover water and ink in his later years, he sometimes use both materials in the same painting, in order to achieve the beauty in his eyes. Some say water and ink are more suitable to represent the warm and beauty of Jiangnan, however Wu Guanzhong is the water and ink painter of the new generation, and he brought water and ink into western paintings, and achieved a revolutionary result in to Chinese traditional paintings.

浺ternity?is the painting of a beautiful garden in Jiangnan, where fishes play freely in the pond. In recent years, each time Wu Guanzhong returns to his homeland, he discovers old buildings took apart, and feels helpless about it. Painting his homeland gives him the most complicated feelings. Wu Guanzhong traveled from north to south in China, he collected the seeds of beauty everywhere, and he had planted a wonderful homeland in his paintings. The inks are well arranged in ternity? with simple brush strokes on the structures of houses, to demonstrate the elegance of Jiangnan buildings, the softness of the fishes in the pond, and of course the skills of its painter.

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Ravenel Spring Auction 2006

Sunday, June 4, 2006, 12:00am