LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)

Lot 718
28.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
HKD 2 600 000
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ID 1343833
Lot 718 | LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)
Estimate value
HKD 2 600 000 – 3 500 000
LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)
Chrysanthemums
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
67 x 63 cm. (26 3/8 x 24 ¾ in.)
Signed, with one seal of the artist




Literature

Y.C. Gallery Collection Vol. 2, Y.C.Gallery, Taipei and Singapore, 1990, pl.34.
The Foh Collection, Christie’s Hong Kong, May 2023, pp.18-19, pl.9.



Further details

Lin Fengmian loved flowers. He painted them often and he especially adored chrysanthemums. For Lin, flowers accompanied him through the highs and lows of his life. In Chinese culture, chrysanthemums often symbolize an upright character, and the artist likely wanted to express his pursuit and aspiration for this noble trait through his paintings of chrysanthemums. The present painting depicts a pot full of vibrant, multicolour chrysanthemums in full bloom. The elegant and harmonious tones of the flowers are enhanced by the contrast of the white flowerpot. The colours under Lin’s skilful brushwork are rich and luminous but reserved, just like the moral character chrysanthemum represents. Lin focused on enriching a composition on the two-dimensional plane, using the translucency of ink and colour pigments to represent spatial dimension coupled with a dark background. The calmness exuded by the painting aptly echoes the artist’s personality. This work originally belonged to Zheng Yingquan, the owner of the renowned Y. C. Gallery collection in Singapore and was published in Y.C. Gallery Collection Vol. 2 in 1990. It was later acquired by the Foh family.
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