Live Auction 18268Fine Chinese Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings
LI HUAYI (B. 1948)
Lot 1023 FROM AN IMPORTANT HONG KONG PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOT 1023)

LI HUAYI (B. 1948)

Landscape (No. 9)

Closed1 December 2020

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HKD 1,500,000

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LI HUAYI (B. 1948)
Landscape (No. 9)
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
132.5 x 64.5 cm. (52 1/8 x 25 3/8 in.)
Signed, with one seal of the artist

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings, 30 October 1995, Lot 281.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Paintings, 7 October 2014, Lot 1555.

Specialist note

Li Huayi devoted his artistic practice exclusively to landscape painting in 1992, a decade after his move from China to San Francisco. Inspired and influenced by the monumental Californian landscape and postmodernist theories, in Landscape (No. 9) he deconstructs and makes strange the Northern Song tradition: richly textured rock forms dominate the foreground in an unusual, elevated view; a mysterious mist shrouds the mountains in the background. Taking the viewer through a journey of self-reflection, the landscape symbolises a personal and philosophical dialogue between man and nature, a dialogue intricately rooted in the Chinese literary and artistic tradition.