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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Dec 11, 2020 | Est-Ouest Auctions | Tokyo | 2020 HONG KONG - TOKYO JOINT AUCTION | 220 | $****** - ****** | COMPOSITION |
paintings
41 x 33 cm (16.14 x 12.99 in)
oil on canvas
signed on the lower right " 朱德群 CHU TEH-CHUN" signed and dated on the reverse " 朱德群 CHU TEH-CHUN le 8.12.1984"
private collection, France
Chu Teh-Chun was born in Jiangsu Province. He studied under Lin Fengmian, Wu Dayu and Zao Wou-Ki, they are known as the "Hangzhou Three Masters" who are the pioneers of Chinese abstract painting. Based on what he learned in China, he took Western concepts and paved the way for the imagination and spirit of traditional Chinese painting. From early on, he combined traditional Western painting with new abstract art, and at the same time adopted the technique of Chinese ink painting, and by incorporating the spirit of Chinese ink painting into the abstract painting, he expressed a unique situation in various colors. Chu Teh-Chun is also recognized by the mainstream French society and was elected as a member of the French Academy of Arts in 1997. It was the first feat of a Chinese artist in this 200-year-old French Hall of Fame. His work depicts natural objects such as clear air, water vapor, wind and rapid eddy. A pale rosy morning light or a fiery red sunset often appears on his works, in which the light mysteriously moves and pulsates. He uses exaggerated and lyrical techniques to create a strong and timeless impression and create a dreamlike effect. This work symbolizes the invasion of intense and dazzling light into the darkness. Darkness encounters light and heads in all directions, resonating with or colliding with the orbit of light. The painting depicts a large undulating eddy, in which blue, green, rosy, and ocher slide from light to light, gradually blurring and creating exquisite contrast. As if torn the upper half of the darkness, the outflow of light shows resistance to another world. It is a manifestation of life and a threat to darkness in an outlineless plane. The sign of dispersion is simple and wonderful line movement like Chinese calligraphy, which expresses affirmation and subtlety with gestures, and entertains through concentration, diffusion and saturation. This work catches the viewer's eyes and builds a direct relationship with the work. In the whole work, colors have a lively and substantive power, and light radiates from such a complex whole. Chu Teh-Chun born in 1920, grew up in a well-off family. He entered the National Hangzhou Art College and studied under Lin Fengmian when he was 14. In 1947, the civil war in China began, he left China and move to Taiwan. After six years of stay, he headed to Paris in 1955 and continued drawing at the Grande Chaumière. His paintings quickly changed from concrete to abstract. Chu Teh-Chun established his original style in the early 1960s, when Art informel and Abstract Expressionism was declining.
