Estimate
TWD 2,600,000-3,000,000
HKD 619,000-714,300
USD 79,300-91,500
Sold Price
TWD 3,068,000
HKD 725,467
USD 92,899
Signature
Titled on the reverse "Equilibrer orange" in French, signed CHU TEH-CHUN in English and Chinese, dated 1989
The painting is to be sold with a
certificate of authenticity issued
by Main Trend Gallery, Taipei.
+ OVERVIEW
Chu Teh-chun is currently a world-famed Chinese artist, born on 1920, he studied in Hangzhou National Academy of Art in 1935, after graduation, he taught in Nanjing Central University and Taiwan Normal University. In 1955, he went to Paris to learn to paint; he started to make abstract paintings in 1956. After 50 years of explorations, Chu has achieved remarkable achievements; he is now one of the most famous abstract artists in the world. He was elected by French Academy in 1999 and was also the first Chinese who received this honor in the last two centuries.
Chu's paintings are poetic; they possessed rhythms and vibrations of music in the sky. His using of colors is steady and wild; lines splashed like grasses against wind, his works possessed the taste of Chinese landscapes and calligraphy. They are exquisite like Eastern arts and also has bold use of colors like Western paintings, his abstraction has a natural flow, passionate and wild. Light is the most important element in his paintings; it mysteriously comes and goes in the picture, telling the secrets of the nature and the universe.
Blue is Chu's favorite for base color, it is the color of the ocean and the sky. It' s decent and poetic, and could create the atmosphere between the worlds.
"Equilibrer orange" also adopted blue as its base color. Through the use of mysterious and poetic colors, Chu created a special artistic conception. Look closely, color blocks are like dancing music notes, like flowers, penetrated by clear bright lights, you cannot find realistic forms in his paintings, there are only mysteries dancing in the picture, but if you tried to listen to his paintings, you might hear Chinese music whispering.
The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art
Ravenel Spring Auction 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 12:00am