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SANYU (1895-1966)

Lot 15
26.09.2024 10:00UTC +08:00
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HKD 41 515 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 1303649
Lot 15 | SANYU (1895-1966)
Estimate value
HKD 35 000 000 – 55 000 000
SANYU (1895-1966)
Nu blanc au genou levé (White Nude, with Raised Knee)
signed in Chinese, signed and dated 'SANYU 1930' (lower left)
oil on canvas
50.3 x 81.3 cm. (19 3/4 x 32 in.)
Painted in 1930




Provenance

Henri-Pierre Roche, Paris (inventory no. 69)
Jean-Claude Riedel, Paris
Dreyfus collection, Paris
Private collection, Singapore (acquired from the above)



Literature

Rita Wong (ed.), Sanyu Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings, YAGEO Foundation and Lin & Keng Art Publications, Taipei, 2001 (illustrated, plate 4, p. 103).
Pauline Kao (ed.), In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, National Museum of History, Taipei, 2001 (illustrated, plate 13, p. 48).
L'écriture du corps (Sanyu, Language of the Body), Guimet Museum, Paris, 2004 (illustrated, plate 24, p. 60, 127).
Gladys Fabre (ed.), La dona, metamorfosi de la modernitat (The Woman, Metamorphosis of Modernity), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2004 (illustrated, p. 191).
Yi Zhuang, Gu Yue (ed.), World Famous Artist - Sanyu, Hebei Education Publishing House, Hebei, 2010 (illustrated, p. 72).
Rita Wong (ed.), Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings Volume II, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2011 (illustrated, plate 4, p. 116).
R. Wong, SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil Volume One, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2024 (illustrated, plate 76, p. 73).
R. Wong, SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil Volume Two, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2024 (illustrated, plate 24, p. 54, 382).



Exhibited

Taipei, National Museum of History, In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, 13 October - 2 December 2001.
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, La dona, metamorfosi de la modernitat (The Woman, Metamorphosis of Modernity), 26 November 2004 - 6 February 2005.
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