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47 趙獸 1912–2003 Zhao Shou
ೌᕚ Untitled
ذ ̺ Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm. 19 /4 × 15 /4 in.
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SHOU̸ɨ Signed in pinyin on bottom left
PROVENANCE
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̨̏ɽ͊Ը؍ٸ఼ Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
Acquired directly by present private Asian collector
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from the above
ڝj̨̏ɽ͊Ը؍ٸ఼කͭʘЪۜᗇࣣ This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
issued by Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
HKD 55,000 – 80,000
USD 7,100 – 10,300
Aim High and Soar in the Wind
Zhao’s artistic concept is embodied in the work Untitled. Combining the free
brushwork of abstract expression with the infectious palette of Fauvism, Zhao
creates a geometric image with bold and powerful lines. With the dark green
and yellow brush strokes spreading out layer by layer, a picture full of surrealist
imagination comes up to the audience: the green leaf veins are flourishing and
stretching, and the old house below are posted with festive red door couplets.
Greeneries and florets in the courtyard are burgeoning, and a kite seeming
like a swallow is flying over the centre, like a unique blooming flower. The
work is filled with Wassily Kandinsky’s gorgeous and flowery style, and also
nurtures multiple possibilities of interpretation in the sense of abstract poetry.
Additionally, the free and easy charm embedded in Zhao’s brushwork does
demonstrate the surrealist character that he advocates: “mysterious and wild
disposition”. In the brushwork combining of “colour” and “rhyme”, Zhao, with
blunt, strong, and vigorous oil colour, manifests the warm and brilliant parts
of life. Further, he infuses a wild disposition which belongs to the intellectuals
of the early 20th century into his works. The kite flying high in the picture Ⴛᖕԑ༦dذ̺d47.5 Ò 56 cmdש
suggests his permanent enthusiasm of “aiming high and souring in the wind”. ርϓʹᄆ 204,000 ʩಥ࿆
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