Estimate
TWD 2,500,000-3,500,000
HKD 595,200-833,300
USD 76,200-106,700
Sold Price
TWD 4,484,000
HKD 1,060,298
USD 135,776
Signature
Signed on the reverse PANG JIUN in Chinese and English, dated 2005 and size 170 x 170 cm, title Landscape in Chinese
With one seal of the artist
ILLUSTRATED:
Pang Jiun, Artist Publishing Co., Taipei, 2006, color illustrated, pp. 224-225
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The "Painting Genius" professor now serves in National Taiwan University of Arts. He was born in Shanghai in 1936, His father Pang Xunqin, mother Qiu Ti were both the first generation oil artists studied abroad. Pang was deeply immersed in an artistic atmosphere when he was young, he held a joint exhibition with his sister Pang Zhu in Guangzhou when his only 11 years old. By the age of 13, he was accepted by Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, later transferred to Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, taught by masters like Lin Fengmian, Pan Tianshuo, Huang Binhong, Hsu Peihung, Wu Zuoren, Dong Xiwen, Li Keran, and Li Ku-chan. In 1987, Pang settled in Taiwan, serving in National Taiwan University of Arts still.
Pang's oil paintings absorbs characters from the late western impressions and Fauvism paintings, pursuing the purity and harmony of the colors, his works carries his passion and explosive force, combines expressions in Chinese cultures, with western techniques and eastern spirits within, Pang makes his paintings unique with lots of characteristics. His lines are with strength like those we seen in western paintings, they're also implicit like eastern paintings, pursing liveliness, likes and dislikes, and he paints mostly his feelings, and successfully created his eastern Expressionism.
There aren't limits on Pang's painting subjects, he painted landscapes, still objects, and people. In Pang's eyes, the feeling on any ordinary objects isn't determined by their "forms", but the observer's feelings and emotions at that moment, and colors are the best medium to carry those feelings and emotions. No matter it is the regions of rivers and lakes in Jiang Nan district he paints, or nature he sketches, he treated those "scenery" emotionally.
His "Landscape" can be classified as one of the artist's large size works, it is extraordinary in many aspects, the artist composed it brilliantly makes the whole picture not crowded, and his well use of yellow colors demonstrates his skills in color representations.
The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art
Ravenel Spring Auction 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 12:00am