PRINTPROVENANCE:
Collection of Sanhuai House, Hong Kong
ILLUSTRATED:
Zhou Weiming ed., Collection of Art Garden Studio No. 72: Sanhuai House's Modern Chinese Paintings, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Shanghai, 2004, color illustrated, p. 15
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Bottled Flowers
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1960s Ink and color on paper 34 x 34.5 cm Signed lower left Lin Fengmian in Chinese |
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Estimate
2,800,000 - 3,800,000 714,000 - 969,000 92,000 - 124,800
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Sold Price
3,360,000 835,821 107,934
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PROVENANCE:
Collection of Sanhuai House, Hong Kong
ILLUSTRATED:
Zhou Weiming ed., Collection of Art Garden Studio No. 72: Sanhuai House's Modern Chinese Paintings, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Shanghai, 2004, color illustrated, p. 15
Catalogue Note:
No matter what time it is, as long as you contact with natural image of flowers, nobody won't be affected and intoxicated by its prosperous life. All the sufferings from life and all the turns of the wheel vanishing in front of this floweriness. Lin Fengmian's whole life is full of difficulties, but he loves the flowers and nature so much, lots of people involuntarily highly praise “What a beautiful flower” in front of Lin Fengmian's flowers. This kind of beauty couples appreciative of color and shape of the work itself, but also the full and warm feelings of artist. Similarly, there are also strong feelings in the moment dominated by cold and gloomy emotions. Those flowers in this “Bottled Flowers” in the vase picture are more gorgeous, growth more willfully than real mums, and not dazzling at all. People stands in front of the flowers, only feels harmony and pure, but no aggressive and frigid. Artist's recall with deep emotion about the beauty makes the viewer in front of the picture deeply affected by the prosperous and progressive atmosphere.
In fact, the true color of the real flowers is not so motley, deep and bright. The yellow of these mums changefully and complex, the background red warm and convergent, change the concinnous and refined feelings coming from white and powder blue. But behind the warm life, in the form of its representation, the painter uses cold color tones in the background to weaken the over strong feelings to people which come from main yellow and red, also makes the viewers feel depressed and recondite emotions restraint by artist, free vital tension from all shackles, come out beautifully. Lin Fengmian's paintings of flowers embody that he is a master of color usage. Enriched by the experience of artist, create shade and depth level of color on palette, find out best way to express feelings in the objective world through artist inner world.
In fact, the true color of the real flowers is not so motley, deep and bright. The yellow of these mums changefully and complex, the background red warm and convergent, change the concinnous and refined feelings coming from white and powder blue. But behind the warm life, in the form of its representation, the painter uses cold color tones in the background to weaken the over strong feelings to people which come from main yellow and red, also makes the viewers feel depressed and recondite emotions restraint by artist, free vital tension from all shackles, come out beautifully. Lin Fengmian's paintings of flowers embody that he is a master of color usage. Enriched by the experience of artist, create shade and depth level of color on palette, find out best way to express feelings in the objective world through artist inner world.