PROVENANCE:
Hsiung Shih Gallery, Taipei
Acquired from the above by the present owner’s father

EXHIBITED:
Liu Keng-I , Tamsui Center of Arts & Culture, Taipei, Feburary 29 - March 31, 1996

ILLUSTRATED:
Liu Keng-I , Tamsui Center of Arts & Culture, Taipei, 1996, color illustrated, no. 23, p. 58

Liu Keng-i was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1938. His father is a 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 the r elationship 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. Liu had his first solo exhibition in 1962 at Gallery of Taiwan Daily News in Kaohsiung. Subsequently, he had exhibited at several renowned galleries in Taiwan. Furthermore, a dual solo exhibitions with his wife, Ya-Yun Tseng was held at Reybur n House Art Gallery in New Zealand in 2002; a retrospective exhibition “Aria of Life: The Art of Liu Keng-I” was held by Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2011