Lot  637 Ravenel Spring Auction 2018

Ravenel Spring Auction 2018

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

With two seals of the artist

+ 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.

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Connoisseurship: The Literati Sale

Ravenel Spring Auction 2018

Saturday, June 2, 2018, 3:30pm