YU Cheng-yao
Taiwanese 1898 - 1993
Born in 1898 in Yongchun, Fujian, Yu went to Waseda Univesity in japan to study economics in 1920. The following year, he transferred to the Japanese Army Officers' Academy. In 1923, he returned to China to teach at the Whampoa Military Academy. In 1946, he retired from military service at the rank of lieutenant-general. In 1949, he came to Taiwan. In 1977, he held his first oversea solo exhibition at New York Chinese Cultural Center. In 1986, at the advanced age of eighty-eight, he held his first solo exhibition at the Hsiung-shih Gallery in Taiwan. In 1987, his held a solo exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall. In 1988, the National Museum of History held a retrospective exhibition of his works; in the same year, Hanart Gallery Taipei also held his exhibition “Recent works by Yu Cheng-yao”. Yu Cheng-yao only started painting at the age of fifty-six. Because in his early years he had been in the military and traveled extensively, his style of painting was more of a recapitulation from memory. He was a successful self-taught painter, calligrapher and poet.
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Landscape
Ink on paper
34 x 67 cm
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Estimate
260,000 - 360,000 67,000 - 93,000 8,500 - 11,800 59,000 - 82,000
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Green Landscape
Ink and color on paper
17.5 x 33.5 cm (upper)
66 x 33.5 cm (lower) |
Estimate
260,000 - 360,000 67,000 - 93,000 8,500 - 11,800 59,000 - 82,000
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Sold Price
288,000 73,096 9,342 64,865
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Poem in Cursive Script
1989
Ink on paper, framed
69.5 x 28.5 cm
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Estimate
90,000 - 180,000 24,000 - 49,000 3,100 - 6,200 20,000 - 39,000
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Poem in Cursive Script
1990
Ink on paper
44.5 x 142 cm
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Estimate
130,000 - 220,000 35,000 - 59,000 4,500 - 7,600 28,000 - 48,000
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Sold Price
120,000 31,579 4,021
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Landscape
Ink on paper, framed
47 x 60 cm
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Estimate
320,000 - 480,000 86,000 - 129,000 11,000 - 16,500 69,000 - 104,000
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Landscape
1970
Ink on paper, framed
68 x 30 cm
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Estimate
340,000 - 550,000 92,000 - 148,000 11,700 - 18,900 74,000 - 119,000
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Landscape
1970
Ink and colour on paper, framed
83 x 43.5 cm
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Estimate
600,000 - 900,000 162,000 - 243,000 20,700 - 31,000 130,000 - 195,000
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Landscape
1978
Ink and color on paper
67 x 47 cm
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Estimate
550,000 - 850,000 142,000 - 220,000 18,300 - 28,200
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Landscape
Ink and color on paper
71.5 x 43 cm
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Estimate
600,000 - 700,000 155,000 - 181,000 19,900 - 23,200
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Calligraphy in Running Script
1971
Ink on paper
33.5 x 98 cm
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Estimate
130,000 - 220,000 34,000 - 57,000 4,300 - 7,300
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