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FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOT 1423)
WU GUANZHONG (1919-2010)
Banyan and the Sea
Details
WU GUANZHONG (1919-2010)
Banyan and the Sea
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
90 x 96.2 cm. (35 3/8 x 37 7/8 in.)
Signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated 1997
PROVENANCE:
Lot 1327, 26-27 May 2014, Fine Chinese Modern Paintings, Christie’s Hong Kong.
LITERATURE:
The Landscape of Life - Wu Guanzhong’s Album in Art (III), San Lian Bookshop, Beijing, 2003, p.234.
Sensibilité et Innovation-Le Parcours de la peinture à l’encre chinois de WuGuanZhong, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Changsha, 2004, pl.92.
The Complete Works of Wu Guanzhong Vol. VIII, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Changsha, 2007, p.64.
Paintings by Wu Guanzhong Vol. II, Jiangxi Fine Art Publishing House, March 2008, p.224.
Wu portrays the banyan tree in the foreground with expressive and sweeping brushstrokes, contrasting to the idyllic village by the sea in the distance. He fills the composition such that most of the paper is taken up by the tree trunk and overarching branches, boldly choosing a single element as a dominating presence in the foreground over the multitude of houses in the distance.
The pictorial space dominated by Wu’s strong, expressive lines, lies somewhere between freestyle abstraction and naturalistic realism - Wu’s expressive approach and depiction of the relative size, heights, and distances of objects allow the painting to exude a sense of precise, ordered beauty, bold yet effortless, elegant without losing sight of Wu’s artistic endeavours for a new aesthetic order.
“Trees have been my bosom friends throughout these sixty years of my existence in the tumultuous world. The banyans by the river never lose their grace, with aerial roots hanging down like flowing hair.”
Wu Guanzhong
Banyan and the Sea
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
90 x 96.2 cm. (35 3/8 x 37 7/8 in.)
Signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated 1997
PROVENANCE:
Lot 1327, 26-27 May 2014, Fine Chinese Modern Paintings, Christie’s Hong Kong.
LITERATURE:
The Landscape of Life - Wu Guanzhong’s Album in Art (III), San Lian Bookshop, Beijing, 2003, p.234.
Sensibilité et Innovation-Le Parcours de la peinture à l’encre chinois de WuGuanZhong, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Changsha, 2004, pl.92.
The Complete Works of Wu Guanzhong Vol. VIII, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, Changsha, 2007, p.64.
Paintings by Wu Guanzhong Vol. II, Jiangxi Fine Art Publishing House, March 2008, p.224.
Wu portrays the banyan tree in the foreground with expressive and sweeping brushstrokes, contrasting to the idyllic village by the sea in the distance. He fills the composition such that most of the paper is taken up by the tree trunk and overarching branches, boldly choosing a single element as a dominating presence in the foreground over the multitude of houses in the distance.
The pictorial space dominated by Wu’s strong, expressive lines, lies somewhere between freestyle abstraction and naturalistic realism - Wu’s expressive approach and depiction of the relative size, heights, and distances of objects allow the painting to exude a sense of precise, ordered beauty, bold yet effortless, elegant without losing sight of Wu’s artistic endeavours for a new aesthetic order.
“Trees have been my bosom friends throughout these sixty years of my existence in the tumultuous world. The banyans by the river never lose their grace, with aerial roots hanging down like flowing hair.”
Wu Guanzhong
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