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T'ANG HAIWEN (TANG THIEN PHUOC HAYWEN, Chinese, 1927-1991)
Lot 7010

T'ANG HAIWEN (TANG THIEN PHUOC HAYWEN, Chinese, 1927-1991)

Homage to Turner, The Appeased Storm

Closed24 November 2013

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HKD 687,500

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T'ANG HAIWEN
(TANG THIEN PHUOC HAYWEN, Chinese, 1927-1991)
Homage to Turner, The Appeased Storm
signed 'T'ang'; signed in Chinese (lower right)
mixed media on Kyro card, diptych
70 x 100 cm. (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in 1980

Acquired directly from the artist in 1986
Private Collection, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996

Specialist note

Homage to Turner, the Appeased Storm is an important painting of T'ang Haywen being the only large work inspired by Turner.
At the same time, in 1980, T'ang produced a series of small watercolours (18 x 18 cm.) also inspired by the English master.
This work has been included in several museum exhibitions amongst which is the retrospective of T'ang Haiwen at Musee Guimet, Paris in 2002. It is also reproduced in the monograph Paths of Ink published the same year.