WU Guanzhong
Chinese 1919 - 2010
Born in Yixing, Jiangsu. Wu Guanzhong's training in Western art began at the Hangzhou National College of Art in 1936 under Lin Fengmian (1900-1991). After his graduation in 1942, he obtained a teaching position at the National Chung-ching University. He then traveled to France where he spent the next four years studying oil painting under Professor Jean Souverbie (1891-1981) at the Ecole Nationale Sup rieure des Beaux Arts and the ateliers of Andr Lhote (1885-1962) and Othon Frieze (1879-1949). He has painted in oil since 1950, even during the Cultural Revolution. His international fame is evident in two recent exhibitions of his traditional oil paintings at the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco (1989-90) and the British Museum in London (1993). Hong Kong Museum of Art and National Museum of History in Taipei held solo exhibitions of Wu's work in 1995 and in 1997 respectively.
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A Heap of Stones
1982
Ink and color on paper
65.5 x 65.5 cm
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Estimate
13,000,000 - 22,000,000 3,210,000 - 5,432,000 413,700 - 700,200
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Sold Price
12,000,000 2,919,708 376,058
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Landscape of Mount Huang
Ink and color on paper
53 x 35.5 cm
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Estimate
8,000,000 - 10,000,000 1,975,000 - 2,469,000 254,600 - 318,300
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Sold Price
8,400,000 2,043,796 263,240
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Blooming Plums
1983
Ink and color, acrylic on paper
68 x 68 cm
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Estimate
5,000,000 - 6,000,000 1,235,000 - 1,481,000 159,100 - 191,000
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Sold Price
6,000,000 1,459,854 188,029
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Landscape
1999
Ink and color on paper
20 x 70 cm
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Estimate
2,600,000 - 3,600,000 642,000 - 889,000 82,700 - 114,600
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Sold Price
2,400,000 583,942 75,212
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Lion Grove Garden
1980
Ink and color, acrylic on paper
96 x 88.5 cm
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Estimate
16,102,000 - 23,305,000 3,800,000 - 5,500,000 490,300 - 709,700
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Sold Price
22,184,874 5,280,000 681,290
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Viewing Fish at Flower Harbour
1977
Ink and color on paper
40 x 35 cm
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Estimate
3,441,000 - 5,263,000 850,000 - 1,300,000 109,600 - 167,600
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Sold Price
4,560,000 1,140,000 147,097
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Palm Trees
Carbonic ink and pen on paper
41.5 x 31 cm
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Estimate
650,000 - 950,000 169,000 - 247,000 21,900 - 32,000
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Landscape
1999
Ink and color on paper
20 x 70 cm
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Estimate
2,300,000 - 4,200,000 597,000 - 1,091,000 77,400 - 141,400
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Sold Price
2,640,000 683,938 88,265
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Black Roof Wall
1987
Ink and color on rice paper
94.5 x 88 cm
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Estimate
7,700,000 - 15,400,000 2,000,000 - 4,000,000 254,800 - 509,600
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Sold Price
8,307,692 2,160,000 278,351
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Plum Blossom in the Snow
1992
Ink and color on paper
70 x 140 cm
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Estimate
11,480,000 - 17,220,000 2,800,000 - 4,200,000 359,000 - 538,500
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Sold Price
25,384,615 6,600,000 847,240
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