Zeng Fanzhi - Contemporary Art Evening Sale London Friday, October 17, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen

  • Exhibited

    Shenzhen, He Xiangning Art Museum, SCAPES: The Paintings of Zeng Fanzhi 1989-2004 September, 2004 

  • Catalogue Essay

    In contrast to other siren-like fields that threaten to swallow up their subjects, the present lot is notable for its clear cast of light and open space in the mid-ground, as well as the lightness of the subject. It is refreshing that the artist, renowned for intense psychological portraiture, is content to depict his daughter in such a delightful manner.
     
    In his paintings rational sense and irrational emotions are interwoven, embodied in the fight between the concrete and abstract image. Zeng does not restrain himself to any rules or established logic but he keeps the integrity of the creating process and the result. In addition, he repelled the repetitiveness of painting and achieved fantastic effect caused by the prearrangement and the chance, that is, a new language between ‘intentional’ and ‘unintentional’, ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’ .The real aim of the artist is not to draw a thing to reflect life but to represent the phenomenon in a spontaneous logical relationship. The subjective arrangement produces a resonance between the colour and the form, echoing the perception of the artist. The colour, the lines and structure of the whole picture is filled with anxiety and tension, seemingly pregnant with a life, a kind of lonely poetic feeling. (Huang Du, Abstractness between ‘intentional’ and ‘unintentional’, Review on latest works by Zeng Fanzhi, 2006).
     
     

352

Little Girl

2004
Oil on canvas.
250 x 175 cm. (98 1/2 x 68 7/8 in).
Signed 'Zeng Fanzhi' lower right.

Estimate
£400,000 - 600,000 

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

18 Oct 2008, 7pm
London