Illustrated:
Drawing World of Xia Junna, Liaoning Fine Arts Press, 2003, color illustration, p. 34
The Wine Ode I
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2000 Oil on canvas 130 x 70 cm Signed lower right XJN in English and dated 2000 |
Estimate
260,000 - 300,000 8,400 - 9,700
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Sold Price
920,400 29,738
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Xia Jun-na was born in Mongolia, graduated from Beijing Central Academy in Fine Arts. In 2000, her works had swept the China art scene and became the most sought by collectors in China. The delicacy of her brush along with the sensitivity of her colors decorate each of her works fulgurate. Her ornament is poetic, sort of holds back inside, it's like walking back and forth and plays up mood to the climax in a joyous and pleased festival celebration with song, chatting, and laughter. However, her painting has melancholy with cool that belongs to literature, filled with thickness, and like the beautifully sadness wishing to speak but not a word was spoken. The unapparent hint from this thriving scenery likes as in the painting of Edward Vuillard, French Les Nabis; a lonely soul staying outside and looking indoor prosperity and splendor.