GUAN SHANYUE (1912 - 2000)

Estimated Value:

2.000 € - 3.000 €

Result:

2.590 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, dated 1954
35 x 134,5 cm
Site of the Future Great Yangtse Bridge in Wuhan. Unmounted handscroll, Ink on paper. Inscription and Signature by the artist: “The Great Bridge over the Yangzi connecting from south to north the three parts of Wuhan will be constructed here between the Tower of the Yellow Crane (Huanghelou) and the Tortoise Hill (Guishan) on the opposite side. On the thirteenth day of the fourth month of the year 1954 sketched by Guan Shanyue”. One seal of the artist: “Seal of Guan Shanyue” (Guan Shanyue yin).
From a private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia, acquired before 2007 - Very minor wear at the edges
Guan Shanyue was a student of Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) and a Lingnan School painter of the second generation. Born in Guangzhou he spent World War II in western China studying the frescoes in the Dunhuang caves and doing more than eighty copies of details of the paintings. In 1946 he became professor for Chinese painting at the Municipial Art Academy in Guangzhou and in 1966 President of the Guangdong Painting Academy. In 1959 he painted, together with Fu Baoshi (1904-1965), the thirty-foot-wide mural in the Great Hall of the People titled ‘How Beautiful Are Our Mountains and Rivers’ after a poem by Mao Zedong. This rare sketch by him, perhaps a study for a future painting, shows his masterly skill in using brush and ink

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