German Scenery

1950

Oil on board

40 x 26 cm

Signed lower left Guan Liang in Chinese

Estimate
700,000 - 1,200,000
165,200 - 283,200
21,200 - 36,300

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2007

038

GUAN Liang (Chinese, 1900 - 1986)

German Scenery


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The painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Soka Art Centre, Tainan.

Catalogue Note:

Western painting emphasizes colored profile in patches; while orient painting is inclined to lines taken as structure. In Guan Liang's works, combination of Western and orient styles is distinctive. The painting, "German Scenery" is a sketched actual landscape Guan Liang created in Germany. Facing the casual landscape, the painter seized the thematic color of "blue and green". Random application of different hues of the same color group has typical elegant disposition of paintings of impressionism. His sense to the objective nature is reflected in each hairline stroke, meanwhile, reflecting Guan Liang's feature in oil painting, emphasizing alikeness in spirit and artistic conception. The patch form outlined by color and line as well as the structure and spirit integrated together reflects the artist's allegation to incorporate sentiment of Chinese arts into western arts. Guan Liang' s smal l landscape paint ings resemble meaningful short essay, concise and conception long.

Over the two years , Guan Liang' s unique ink paintings of drama figure are especially favored in auction market and the rock-bottom price for auction has broken through RMB 1 million. However, his oil paintings are less in amount and rare in the auction market, especially the important works out of important period.

The period from later 1940's to the mid 1960's was the second period for Guan Liang's creation of oil paintings. During this period, Guan Liang's works reached up to a very high achievement, hues bright and artistic conception fresh and lucid. Especially during his visit to Germany in 1957, he created large amount of oil painting works, fine and elegant, characterized by outlandish flavor; the painting style is pure and sincere, with distinctive artistic personality, and at the same time has very high value for collection.


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