Le 15 OCT. 76
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1976 Oil on canvas 100 x 73.5 cm Signed lower right CHU Teh-chun in Chinese and English |
Estimate
3,600,000 - 4,600,000 923,100 - 1,179,500 124,100 - 158,600
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Sold Price
4,720,000 1,211,499 155,238
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If Zao Wou-ki is regarded better at unrealistic imagination, Chu Teh-chun could be deemed possessing iniltrated imagination through space of time with strokes and brushes. To explore the developing context of Chu Teh-chun's works, one should start with the study of his ink paintings and calligraphy. Chu Teh-chun has developed his unique painting style with new theory and expressions through the lines and ink in his persistent practice of Chinese calligraphy and ink painting. The traditional Chinese landscape and pleasant ambience have been stretched out unrestrained and expressed through the lines by Chu Teh-chun. At the same time, the poems extol natural scenery in long history of China have greatly enriched Chu The- chun's perception of the scenery. Particularly, Wang Wei, Dong Yuan, and Fan Kuan, the poets in Tang Dynasty, and Lu You, the renowned poet in Southern Song Dynasty, are most respected by Chu Teh-chun. Ediied by Chinese traditional culture, Chu Teh-chun shows a liberty and pride in his art, which is wide and fluent like cursive script. This masterpiece, "Le 15 OCT. 76", was painted at a heat with relatively thin color, which relected Chu Teh- chun's ink painting skill previously learned in China. The painting technique inherited from the basic skill of Chinese painting has not only expressed the massiveness of the colors with thin strokes, but also added a transparent sense of the painting. Appreciating Chu Teh-chun's painting, one not only can communicate with the artist's soul, but the universe and nature as well.