Live Auction 532520th Century British & Irish Art Day Sale
Richard Lin (Lin Show-Yu) (b. 1933)
Lot 216

Richard Lin (Lin Show-Yu) (b. 1933)

Painting relief

Closed24 May 2012

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GBP 27,500

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Richard Lin (Lin Show-Yu) (b. 1933)
Painting relief
aluminium and oil on canvas
40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4 cm.)
Conceived on 31 January 1964.

with Marlborough Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner's grandfather, May 1976.

Specialist note

"Stillness is very important to me. Painting is my religious expression. It's my altarpiece, something untouched by human hands. There for all the gestures disappeared."