Liu Keng-I
Taiwanese 1938
Liu Keng-i was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1938. His father is the famous Taiwanese painter－Liu Chi-hsiang. He is an artist with abundant sensibility; he excels in capturing harmony and disaccord between nature and human. His works showed us the relationship between human, society and local country life. Liu had won several important Taiwanese domestic art awards, including “Tai-Yang Prize” of Tai-Yang Art Association Yearly Exhibition, and “Chin Chueh Prize” for oil paintings by R.O.C. Painting Society.
Selected solo shows: 1962, first one-man show at Gallery of Taiwan Daily News, Kaohsiung; 1982, Vien Gallery, Taipei, Ming Men Gallery, Taichung; 1985, Hsiung Shih Gallery, Taipei; 2001, Asia Art Center, Taipei; 2002, double solo exhibitions with his wife, Ya-Yun Tseng at Reyburn House Art Gallery, New Zealand; 2005-07, Indigo Gallery, New Zealand; 2011, "Aria of Life: The Art of Liu Keng-I", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei.
Major group shows: 1990, "Liu's Family Show", Contemporary Gallery, Taipei, "300 years of Fine Arts in Taiwan", Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; 1994, "Retrospective Exhibition of Painting Development in Taiwan, 1739-1980", Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsuing; 1996, "Sadness Transformed: 2.28 Commemorative Exhibition", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; 2011, "100 Paintings in a Century: Invitational Exhibition of Taiwan Contemporary Artists", National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung and Tainan Municipal Culture Center, Tainan; "A Century of the Humanities in Taiwan", National Museum of History, Taipei and National Museum of Taiwan Literature, Tainan.
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Bridge of Yaco Seashore
1998
Pastel on paper
55.5 x 74.5 cm
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Estimate
110,000 - 220,000 28,000 - 57,000 3,700 - 7,300
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Harbour
1998
Oil on canvas
51 x 75.4 cm
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Estimate
120,000 - 220,000 31,000 - 57,000 4,000 - 7,300
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Sold Price
144,000 37,306 4,786
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Yaco Seashore in Pingtung
1997
Pastel on paper
76 x 102 cm
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Estimate
130,000 - 220,000 32,000 - 54,000 4,100 - 7,000
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Sold Price
144,000 35,036 4,513
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Portrait of the Artist's Wife
1986
Oil on canvas
91 x 65 cm
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Estimate
220,000 - 340,000 54,000 - 84,000 7,000 - 10,800
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Sold Price
432,000 104,854 13,504
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Rainbow
2000
Pastel on paper
76 x 102 cm
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Estimate
220,000 - 320,000 52,000 - 76,000 6,700 - 9,800
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Green Pear
2000
Oil on paper
45.5 x 38.5 cm
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Estimate
60,000 - 120,000 14,000 - 28,000 1,800 - 3,600
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Sold Price
120,000 28,436 3,672
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Reflection on the Lake
1973
Pastel on paper
38 x 53 cm
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Estimate
70,000 - 140,000 17,000 - 35,000 2,200 - 4,500
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Winter
1991
Crayon and oil on paper
55 x 75 cm
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Estimate
120,000 - 200,000 31,000 - 51,000 3,900 - 6,600
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Sold Price
132,000 32,836 4,240
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Gladiolus
1994
Oil on paper
75 x 54 cm
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Estimate
220,000 - 420,000 56,000 - 107,000 7,200 - 13,800
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Sold Price
144,000 35,821 4,626
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Twilight on the River Arno
1988
Oil on canvas
61 x 72.5 cm
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Estimate
260,000 - 400,000 66,000 - 102,000 8,600 - 13,200
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Sold Price
288,000 74,419 9,603
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