T'ANG HAIWEN (TANG THIEN PHUOC HAYWEN, Chinese, 1927-1991)

Homage to Turner, The Appeased Storm

Details

T'ANG HAIWEN
(TANG THIEN PHUOC HAYWEN, Chinese, 1927-1991)
Homage to Turner, The Appeased Storm
signed 'T'ang'; signed in Chinese (lower right)
mixed media on Kyro card, diptych
70 x 100 cm. (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in 1980

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in 1986
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996

Literature

Fine Arts Museum of Quimper, T'ang Haywen, Quimper, France, 1983 (detail illustrated on cover).
Editions de la Pointe, Jean Francois Jarrige, Philippe Koutouzis, Jean-Paul Desroches, T'ang Haywen, Paths of Ink, 2002 (illustrated, plate 107, p. 129).
Guimet Museum and the Reunion of National Museums (RMN), Journal of the exhibition, T'ang Haywen, Paths of Ink, France, 2002 (illustrated, pp. 6-7).
Catalogue raisonné in preparation (to be illustrated, plate S4-LDC-7).

Exhibited

Quimper, France, Fine Arts Museum of Quimper, T'ang Haywen, 1983
Vitré, France, Fine Arts Museum of Vitré, Château de Vitré, T'ang Haywen, 1984
Paris, France, Guimet Museum of Asian Art, T'ang Haywen, Paths of Ink, 2002

Lot Essay

Homage to Turner, the Appeased Storm is an important painting of T'ang Haywen being the only large work inspired by Turner.
At the same time, in 1980, T'ang produced a series of small watercolours (18 x 18 cm.) also inspired by the English master.
This work has been included in several museum exhibitions amongst which is the retrospective of T'ang Haiwen at Musee Guimet, Paris in 2002. It is also reproduced in the monograph Paths of Ink published the same year.

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