Yuan Jai
Apricot Blossom With Kingfisher
Found at
China Guardian,
Hong Kong
20 Century and Contemporary Chinese Art, Lot 776
6. Apr - 6. Apr 2015
20 Century and Contemporary Chinese Art, Lot 776
6. Apr - 6. Apr 2015
Estimate: 160.000 - 220.000 HKD
Price realised: 184.000 HKD
Price realised: 184.000 HKD
Description
Heavy colour on silk
42 x 88 cm.16 1/2 x 34 5/8 in.
Signed and dated in Chinese；stamped with the artist’s seal on the lower left
LITERATURE My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, Yuan Jai, 2011, p.146-147.
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, A Visionary Mind: The Art of Yuan Jai in a Quarter Century, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2012.
EXHIBITED Taipei, HongKong, ShenZhen, China, Hanart TZ Gallery, He Xiangning Art Museum, Exhibition of Modern Green and-Blue Landscape Painting by Yuan Jai, 2000.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, A VisionaryMiind: The Art of Yuan Jai in a Quarter Century, Mar 24-June24. 2012.
“The achievement of Yuan Jai paintings is divided by 1990. She also mentioned that “Before 1990s, I have stopped painting for nearly 20 years and most of my paintings showed the image of the teacher’s painting style. However, I have not given up on practicing calligraphy and I started creations again after my styles has surpassed the pure imitation period of predecessors’ works.” Yuan Jai was profoundly affected by Chinese painting arti
Yuan Jai’s liberation of own imagination and aspiration presents a rich content of visual implications. Apart from formality of innovation, she even proposes more possibility of Chinese painting in terms of material and colors. Excerpt taken from the prelude for solo exhibition for Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts “Fantasy now and then: Yuan Jai’s 25 years of creation.”
Flower and Birds is a signature work of Yuan Jai in the attempt to shift to surrealism in 2000. The image includes classic flowers, birds, mountain rocks, and shells as well other elements confined in a unclear time and space of fantasy. The lake rock on the left stands out to support the layout of the entire screen while the stylish and colorful objects scatter in space. Yuan Jai changed her habit of using gold color for mountain and water by attempting the dark brown and brown-yellow interlaced bottom rarely seen in Chinese painting with horizontal lines stacking to denote the conceptualized waves of sand hills, detaching the viewers from reality and placing themselves in nameless other di
42 x 88 cm.16 1/2 x 34 5/8 in.
Signed and dated in Chinese；stamped with the artist’s seal on the lower left
LITERATURE My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, Yuan Jai, 2011, p.146-147.
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, A Visionary Mind: The Art of Yuan Jai in a Quarter Century, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2012.
EXHIBITED Taipei, HongKong, ShenZhen, China, Hanart TZ Gallery, He Xiangning Art Museum, Exhibition of Modern Green and-Blue Landscape Painting by Yuan Jai, 2000.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, A VisionaryMiind: The Art of Yuan Jai in a Quarter Century, Mar 24-June24. 2012.
“The achievement of Yuan Jai paintings is divided by 1990. She also mentioned that “Before 1990s, I have stopped painting for nearly 20 years and most of my paintings showed the image of the teacher’s painting style. However, I have not given up on practicing calligraphy and I started creations again after my styles has surpassed the pure imitation period of predecessors’ works.” Yuan Jai was profoundly affected by Chinese painting arti
Yuan Jai’s liberation of own imagination and aspiration presents a rich content of visual implications. Apart from formality of innovation, she even proposes more possibility of Chinese painting in terms of material and colors. Excerpt taken from the prelude for solo exhibition for Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts “Fantasy now and then: Yuan Jai’s 25 years of creation.”
Flower and Birds is a signature work of Yuan Jai in the attempt to shift to surrealism in 2000. The image includes classic flowers, birds, mountain rocks, and shells as well other elements confined in a unclear time and space of fantasy. The lake rock on the left stands out to support the layout of the entire screen while the stylish and colorful objects scatter in space. Yuan Jai changed her habit of using gold color for mountain and water by attempting the dark brown and brown-yellow interlaced bottom rarely seen in Chinese painting with horizontal lines stacking to denote the conceptualized waves of sand hills, detaching the viewers from reality and placing themselves in nameless other di
Auction result well in line with expectations
In April 2015 China Guardian in Hong Kong held the auction 20 Century and Contemporary Chinese Art, which included the work Apricot Blossom With Kingfisher by Yuan Jai. The price achieved of HKD 184,000.00 (€ 21,265.01) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as HKD 160,000.00 – 220,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Yuan Jai achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work My Dining Table in April this year with an auction result of HKD 2,640,000.00 (€ 2,695,956.52).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Im April 2015 führte China Guardian in Hong Kong die Auktion 20 Century and Contemporary Chinese Art durch, in der auch die Arbeit Apricot Blossom With Kingfisher von Yuan Jai zur Versteigerung kam. Der dabei erzielte Preis von HKD 184.000,00 (€ 21.265,01) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit HKD 160.000,00 – 220.000,00 angegeben worden. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Yuan Jai erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit My Dining Table im April diesen Jahres mit einem Auktionsergebnis von HKD 2.640.000,00 (€ 2.695.956,52).
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