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Lot 407a
LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)
Estimated Value:
9.000 € - 12.000 €
Schätzpreis:
16.000 €
Description:
China29,5 x 31 cm R.
Woman in the kitchen preparing drinks. Light ink and colours on paper, mounted as an album leaf, framed under glass. Signature: "Lin Fengmian". Artist's seal: "Lin Fengmian yin". On the reverse two Chinese characters written in pencil, unread.
From the collection of the Tafel family, founded by the Tibetan explorer Dr. Albert Tafel (1876-1935) and expanded by Albert Tobias Tafel (1913-1981), mostly acquired in China in the 1930s and 40s
Lin Fengmian (1900-1991, original name Fengming) is an important Chinese painter and the first president of the Chinese College of Arts. Together with Yan Wenliang, Xu Beihong and Liu Haisu, he was one of the "Four Famous Rectors" of China. Originally from Mei County, Guangdong Province, he came to France in 1920 and studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Dijon and Paris. In 1923 he went to Berlin as a visiting student. After his return to China in 1925, he became rector of the College of Art in Beiping. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was a painter at the Chinese Academy of Painting in Shanghai and vice-chairman of the Shanghai Art Association. He integrated Impressionism, Fauvism and Individualism into traditional ink painting and tried to incorporate the concepts of modern Western painting into Chinese painting. He was allowed to leave PRC in 1977 and remained in Hong Kong until his death in 1991
Slightly faded and light foxing
