Live Auction 2888Fine Chinese Modern Paintings
ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Lot 2300

ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)

Guanyin

Closed29 November 2011

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HKD 4,820,000

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ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Guanyin
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
42 x 35.5 cm. (16 1/2 x 14 in.)
20th Century

The painting was a gift from Zhang Daqian to the present owner who was a neighbour in his late teens, during the time when the artist lived in Brazil in the early 1950s.

Specialist note

Zhang Daqian depicted Guanyin in a kindly, compassionate posture of Bhodi Pallanka (seat of enlightenment) amid rocks. She gazes at the "pure bottle" which is said to offer benedictions. Guanyin is drawn with carefully modelled lines, with her garment rendered in "double outlines" to accentuate the lightness of the material which lends to the tranquil surrounding and atmosphere.