Chu Teh-Chun (Zhu Dequn, French/Chinese, B. 1920)

No. 134

Details

Chu Teh-Chun (Zhu Dequn, French/Chinese, B. 1920)
No. 134
signed in Chinese; signed, titled and dated 'CHU TEH-CHUN No. 134 1962' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
35.5 x 52.5 cm. (13 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Painted in 1962

Provenance

Private Collection, France
Anon. Sale, Christie’s Hong Kong, 25 Nov, 2012, Lot 141
Acquired from the above by the present owner
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the Atelier Chu Teh-Chun and Mrs. Chu Ching-Chao.
This work has been proposed for inclusion in the forthcoming Chu Teh-Chun artist catalogue raisonné, being co-edited by Atelier Chu Teh-Chun and Mrs. Chu Ching-Chao.

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Lot Essay

While constructing the landscape composition, Chu Teh-Chun applied fiercely red colours filled with poetry and romance at the tip of his brush in No. 134 (Lot 19) in 1962. Chu’s spontaneous brushworks seems engender a dream-like experience that glides through the painting. At the same time, he forgoes the singular vision of achieving variations in ink-wash. In his expedition for abstract inspired by Western art, Chu simultaneously succeeded to allude the structure of the soaring peaks and waterfalls poetic in the grandeur Chinese landscapes.

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