Yuan Songnian (1895 - 1966)

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Result:

1.942 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, dated 1947
133 x 65,7 cm (159 x 88 cm R.)
Ink and light colours on paper, framed under glass. Signature of the artist: ‘Painted by Yuan Songnian in the summer of the dinghai year (1947).’ Two seals of the artist: ‘Calligraphy and Painting by Songnian’ (Songnian shuhua) and others.
Collection Klaus Nierhoff (1926 - 2011), acquired at Nagel, 14 May 1999, lot 2491
Yuan Songnian came from Panyu in the Guangdong Province. He worked as a teacher at the Academy of Chinese Painting in Shanghai and was a member of the Chinese Artists' Association. He initially also studied Western painting with the aim of renewing Chinese painting, but later abandoned this and devoted himself entirely to traditional Chinese techniques. His landscape paintings are characterised by the expressive use of axe strokes, which he uses to model the rocks in an almost cubic manner. He also used Western perspective, as this picture beautifully shows - Minor traces of age

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