Lot  374 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2016 Taipei

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2016 Taipei

The Face of Eastern District

Michell HWANG (HWANG Ming-che) (Taiwanese, 1948)

1992-1994

Oil on canvas

180 x 230 cm

Estimate

TWD 3,200,000-4,200,000

HKD 790,000-1,037,000

USD 101,800-133,700

Sold Price

TWD 3,000,000

HKD 729,927

USD 94,014


Signature

Signed lower right Che in Chinese and dated 1994
Signed on the reverse titled The Face of Eastern District in Chinese, inscribed 180 x 230 and dated 1992-94

ILLUSTRATED:
Michell Hwang-Faces of the Modern City, Galerie Pierre, Taichung, 1994,color illustrated

+ OVERVIEW

Michell Hwang, first-generation splendid modern artist after WWII, is wellknown in the Chinese artistic circle because of unique artistic terms, glossaries and paintings with dense color of the oriental demeanor and mystery. The art of Michell Hwang has experienced the countryside realist painting in 1970s, the humanistic leniency in 1980s, and the semi-abstractive, colorful metropolitan lifestyle in 1990s. Michell Hwang grew up in Yilan, Taiwan, well-known for the education on rigorous Confucian ethical code. This way, his works always deliver a kind of religious experience. the connotation of symbolism and expressionism. From his irst art show in 1985, Hwang’s paintings have focused on the theme of man and woman – all the men take the form of sad king, oriented towards expressionism; the women have grown from young ladies in the early stage to a figure like the Virgin Mary, with the atmosphere from shy to loyal. Michell Hwang addresses parallel layout of high tone colors in his paintings and builds texture and layers by interweaving and overlapping descriptive strips. “Line” is from time to time the most highlighted, emphasized property in the art of Hwang for no matter plane or solid. These flying, dynamic, and yet vital lines constitute a unique flavor amidst ration and sensibility. The changes cultivated by splendid colors, quick or slow lines, thickness and thinness, turning, and other sharp contrasts compose an ever-changing, mysterious world.

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Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2016 Taipei

Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2:00pm