Sanyu - Foujita/Sanyu: Muses and Models Hong Kong Sunday, March 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artist)
    Private Collection, France

  • Literature

    Rita Wong, SANYU Catalogue Raisonné: Drawings and Watercolours, Taipei, 2014, no. D0646, on the website www.artofsanyu.org p. 13 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Any descriptive element is banished in favour of a supple, quivering, synthetic contour. In short, it was what Chinese scholars call '寫意' ‘grasp an idea and transcribe it’. Let us not forget that etymologically the ideogram '畫' in Mandarin Chinese signifies ‘delineate’ or ‘confine’. […] Sanyu’s style can be seen to be both linear and curvilinear, suppressing any superfluous detail and leading inexorably to a minimalist script.” Jean-Paul Desroches, Du nu au paysage : errance ou itinéraire? in ‘Sanyu, l’écriture du corps’, 2004, p. 27

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Seated Nude

ink on paper
31 x 21 cm. (12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)

Estimate On Request

Foujita/Sanyu: Muses and Models

Hong Kong Selling Exhibition 18-31 May 2019