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LOTS 830-839PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT CHINESE CONTEMPORARY INK COLLECTION IN HONG KONGThis selection of ten paintings comes from an important Chinese contemporary ink collection in Hong Kong. It represents the pioneering vision of the collector and the diverse range of talents and possibilities the category has to offer. The collection has been assembled since 1991 and has witnessed the fast-changing development of Chinese ink paintings in the past two decades.The paintings presented here covers works by artists from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and presents a wide array of styles and subject matters, including the atmospheric, Northern Song-inspired landscape of Li Huayi (China/ United States), the innovative painterly technique of Lee Chun-yi (Taiwan), to the humorous genre scenes depicted by Fang Zhaolin (Hong Kong).With an impeccable provenance, the selection of paintings were acquired directly from the artists or from leading galleries in Hong Kong and abroad.
FANG ZHAOLIN (1914-2006)
My Homeland
Details
FANG ZHAOLIN (1914-2006)
My Homeland
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and colour on paper
176.5 x 96 cm. (69 3/8 x 37 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1987
PROVENANCE
Acquired by the present owner from Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, Fang Zhaolin received a progressive education under the guidance of her open-minded parents. In 1937 Fang left China for the United Kingdom to study European modern history at the University of Manchester, becoming the first Chinese female student at the institution. Fang’s journey as an artist was inspired by many prominent painters of the 20th century. She first received training from Chen Jiucun and Qian Songyan in Shanghai; while in Hong Kong she learned under Lu Xinnong and Zhao Shao’ang who opened her doors to the Lingnan School. She became a student of Zhang Daqian in 1953, and this experience had profound influence on her art. Fang’s mature works after the 1960s accentuate her superb skill in using calligraphy brushwork to outline mountains and landscapes. Through the activity scenes she depicted, Fang’s works resemble Western genre painting and manifest an underlying humour and often a social ideology that is shared by her audience.
My Homeland
Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink and colour on paper
176.5 x 96 cm. (69 3/8 x 37 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1987
PROVENANCE
Acquired by the present owner from Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, Fang Zhaolin received a progressive education under the guidance of her open-minded parents. In 1937 Fang left China for the United Kingdom to study European modern history at the University of Manchester, becoming the first Chinese female student at the institution. Fang’s journey as an artist was inspired by many prominent painters of the 20th century. She first received training from Chen Jiucun and Qian Songyan in Shanghai; while in Hong Kong she learned under Lu Xinnong and Zhao Shao’ang who opened her doors to the Lingnan School. She became a student of Zhang Daqian in 1953, and this experience had profound influence on her art. Fang’s mature works after the 1960s accentuate her superb skill in using calligraphy brushwork to outline mountains and landscapes. Through the activity scenes she depicted, Fang’s works resemble Western genre painting and manifest an underlying humour and often a social ideology that is shared by her audience.
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