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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2021 | Christie's | Hong Kong | 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale: Worlds In A Hand | 10 | $****** - ****** | Vase de lys sur fond marron (Vase of Lilies with Red Ground) |
paintings
91 x 50 cm (35.83 x 19.69 in)
oil on masonite
signed in Chinese and signed ‘SANYU’ (lower right)
Collection of Jean-Claude Riedel, Paris
Dimensions Art Center, Taipei
Private Collection, Asia
Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2010, Lot 01016
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Taipei, Dimensions Art Center, Sanyu, 18-30 April 1992.
Taipei, National Museum of History, The Exhibition of Sanyu, 14 October-26 November 1995.
Taipei, National Museum of History, In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, 13 October - 2 December 2001.
Dimensions Art Center, Important Works by Sanyu - Paris Period, Taipei, 1992 (illustrated, pp. 40-41).
National Museum of History, The Art of Sanyu, Taipei, 1995 (illustrated, plate 44, p. 57).
National Museum of History, In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, Taipei, 2001 (illustrated, plate 75, p. 122).
Rita Wong (ed.), Sanyu Catalogue Raisonne Oil Paintings, YAGEO Foundation, Lin & Keng Art Publications, Taipei, 2001(illustrated, plate 117, p. 227).
Rita Wong (ed.), Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonne: Oil Paintings (Volume II), The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2011 (illustrated, plate 117, p. 129).
Lin & Lin Gallery, Sanyu - The Art of Black, White and Pink, 2018 (illustrated, p. 142-143).
SANYU (CHANG YU, 1895-1966)
Vase de lys sur fond marron (Vase of Lilies with Red Ground)
signed in Chinese and signed ‘SANYU’ (lower right)
oil on masonite
91 x 50 cm. (35 7/8. x 19 5/8. in.)
Painted in the 1940s
