Lot  115 Ravenel Spring Auction 2009 Taipei

Ravenel Spring Auction 2009 Taipei

Woman in a Village

HE Duoling (Chinese, 1948)

1993

Oil on canvas

65 x 79 cm

Estimate

TWD 2,200,000-3,800,000

HKD 512,000-884,000

USD 65,700-113,400

Sold Price


Signature

Signed lower left Duoling in Chinese and dated 93
Titled on the reverse Woman in a Village in Chinese

ILLUSTRATED:

Album of Chinese Contemporary Art 4- He Duoling, Mountain Arts Museum, Kaohsiung, 1997, color illustrated, pp. 112-113

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He Duoling, representing the "Scar Fine Art" of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, is widely believed to be one of China's most talented realist painters. His masterpieces such as "The Spring Wind Was Waken Up", and "Youth", caused a sensation in the 1980's.

He Duoling has substantial and comprehensive skills of artistic design. The figures and sceneries in the canvas are endowed with a spirit of aliveness by his brush strokes. The purity that he esteemed in formal language is different from traditional Chinese water and ink paintings in approach, but is equally satisfactory in result. With delicacy reflected in simplicity, and complexity seen in purity, He Duoling's works of art imply a transcendent spiritual ideology and deep level of artistic aspiration.

Since the 1980s He Duoling has constantly described women in a seemingly synthetic-image approach, and a dreamlike and ethereal style of painting. This magnum opus "Woman in a Village" looks like a grieving lyric coming with the fresh wind of the Sichuan area, and bringing people endless memories, sadness, and imagination. ... He Duoling said: "He likes painting women because women represent beautifulness, and are carrying various elements such as sensitiveness, exquisiteness, emotion and sentiment. Besides, technically speaking, a woman's body is more complicated and difficult to paint. I am fond of techniques, and I found tremendous fun in the process of expressing the changes of light and shadow on a human body."

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Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Spring Auction 2009 Taipei

Sunday, June 7, 2009, 12:00am