Hong: Kong: Spring Sale on 7 April of fine Chinese paintings
Sotheby’s spring sale will take place on 7 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Many exquisite works will be offered, made by modern artists like Zhang Daqian, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Fu Baoshi, Xu Beihong and Xie Zhiliu
A total of 400 lots could gather the nice amount of: HK$ 130 million / US$16.7 million.
C.K. Cheung, Head of Sotheby's Chinese Paintings Department said: “This Spring, we continued to leverage on our unrivalled global network to assemble some of the most outstanding works from important private collections overseas. Headlining the sale is Zhang Daqian’s Lotus in the Wind from the collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York. The painting exemplifies Zhang’s transition from his freehand style to splashed-ink-and-colour technique and is one of the artist’s most pivotal lotus-themed works from the 1960s. Regarded by the artist as an epitome of this genre, the work was on loan to a number of important exhibitions, including Exhibition of Paintings by Chang Da-Chien at Hirschl & Adler Galleries in 1963 and Chang Dai-Chien: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Center of Asian Art and Culture in 1972.” “Another highlight is Roaring Lion, an exceptional work by Gao Qifeng, one of the founders of the Lingnan School of Painting. The work once belonged to the private collection of Zhang Kunyi, student of Gao Qifeng, who brought with her a selection of Gao’s paintings when she left China for the United States during the Second Sino-Japanese War, with Roaring Lion being the most representative of them all. Also worthy of note is Landscape in Afterglow, an outstanding splashed-colour masterpiece by Zhang Daqian from the collection of distinguished Chinese literature scholar Han Nan.”
The collection reflects The Lingnan School of Painting style and the present work tops them all in artistic significance.
