Lot 637
The Floating Dreams No.2
CHEUK KA-WAI (Hong Kong, 1989)
2016
Ink and colour on silk
37 x 64 cm x 2
Estimate
TWD 100,000-200,000
HKD 27,000-54,000
USD 3,400-6,900
CNY 22,000-43,000
Sold Price
TWD 96,000
HKD 25,263
USD 3,217
Signature
+ OVERVIEW
Li Bai said,“Heaven and Earth are a guest house of the myriad things; time has been a passing traveller of a hundred generations. And floating life is like a dream; how often do we find true happiness?” Excluding the existence of the literati, the artist painted the open scroll and unfinished poem left in an old masterpiece Literary Garden. The swallows, which represent the good old time, sitting on the branch replacing the position of the literati, echoing what Li Bai said in the poem. We, humans, are like travelers in the flow of time. Life is like the floating dreams. Our memories, spirits, affection, and other thing that is incorporeal, will keep flowing in the river of time and history.
Connoisseurship: The Literati Sale
Ravenel Spring Auction 2018
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 3:30pm