Live Auction 13268Asian 20th Century Art (Day Sale)
SANYU (CHANG YU, CHINA, 1901-1966)
Lot 567

SANYU (CHANG YU, CHINA, 1901-1966)

UNTITLED (ZEBRA); & UNTITLED (ZEBRA)

Closed28 May 2017

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HKD 237,500

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SANYU (CHANG YU, CHINA, 1901-1966)
UNTITLED (ZEBRA); & UNTITLED (ZEBRA)
signed in Chinese, signed 'SANYU' (lower right); signed in Chinese, signed 'SANYU', numbered '4/50', inscribed in Chinese (lower left); & signed in Chinese, signed 'SANYU' (lower left); inscribed in Chinese (lower right)
two lithographs
image: 12 x 17.5 cm. (4 6/8 x 6 7/8 in.); & 14 x 18 cm. (5 4/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
paper with calligraphy: 14 x 27.5 cm. (5 4/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
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Collection of Mr. Rolf Alfred Stein (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Private Collection, France

Specialist note

Rolf Alfred Stein Collection (Lot 396, 566-568)
Arrived in Paris from Germany in 1933, Rolf Alfred Stein settled in the Montparnasse district where the vibrant cultural scene gathered at that time. Found of Chinese culture, he met Sanyu during these years before he had to leave for Indochina during the Second World War (1939-1945). It is most probably between 1933 and 1938 that he acquired this very unique collection of Sanyu artworks (Lot 396, 566, 567 and 568), who was then a young artist, exhilarated by his artistic experiences and discoveries. When Alfred Stein came back to Paris in 1947, he got back to his former friends and neighbours with among them Sanyu and Man Ray and built a carrier as a recognized sinologist specialized in Tibet at the Collège de France.