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Lot 918
LI XUBAI (B. 1940)
Beautiful Spring
Closed24 November 2014
Price Realised
HKD 60,000
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LI XUBAI (B. 1940)
Beautiful Spring
Handscroll
Ink and colour on paper
11 x 136 cm. (4 1/4 x 53 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2012
Beautiful Spring
Handscroll
Ink and colour on paper
11 x 136 cm. (4 1/4 x 53 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2012
LI XUBAI (B. 1940)
Beautiful Spring
Handscroll
Ink and colour on paper
11 x 136 cm. (4 1/4 x 53 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2012
Beautiful Spring
Handscroll
Ink and colour on paper
11 x 136 cm. (4 1/4 x 53 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2012
LI XUBAI (B. 1940)
Selected exhibitions
2013 University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (solo)
2012 Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (group)
2011 The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (group)
2006 Fujian Fine Arts Academy, Fuzhou, China (solo)
2005 He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (solo)
2003 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (group)
1998 The Chinese American Fine Arts Society, Boston, USA (solo)
Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, China (group)
Notable collections
Asian American Broadcast Network, Boston, USA
Chinese American Fine Arts Society, Boston, USA
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Born in Fuzhou in 1940, Li Xubai is a lover of Chinese classics and worked as editor for art and collecting magazines The World of Collectors and Dragon Roots when he moved to Hong Kong in 1979. Li currently lives in Canada and spends much time painting and travelling in various parts of China to gain inspiration for his artistic creations.
Li Xubai is a rare example of a contemporary painter and a poet. He uses negative space to convey snow, streams, rivers, clouds, and mists, radiating a glowing light that contrasts sharply with the darker tones of mountains and vegetation. In the style of classical landscape painting, Li does not employ perspective; the mountain flows in mid-air without revealing its peak or its bottom. Li's landscapes are built by unconventional shapes, formed by jagged lines that twist and turn at abrupt angles. This exotic, geometric perception has provided a strange, almost digital sense of modernity in his work.
Selected exhibitions
2013 University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (solo)
2012 Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (group)
2011 The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (group)
2006 Fujian Fine Arts Academy, Fuzhou, China (solo)
2005 He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (solo)
2003 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (group)
1998 The Chinese American Fine Arts Society, Boston, USA (solo)
Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, China (group)
Notable collections
Asian American Broadcast Network, Boston, USA
Chinese American Fine Arts Society, Boston, USA
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Born in Fuzhou in 1940, Li Xubai is a lover of Chinese classics and worked as editor for art and collecting magazines The World of Collectors and Dragon Roots when he moved to Hong Kong in 1979. Li currently lives in Canada and spends much time painting and travelling in various parts of China to gain inspiration for his artistic creations.
Li Xubai is a rare example of a contemporary painter and a poet. He uses negative space to convey snow, streams, rivers, clouds, and mists, radiating a glowing light that contrasts sharply with the darker tones of mountains and vegetation. In the style of classical landscape painting, Li does not employ perspective; the mountain flows in mid-air without revealing its peak or its bottom. Li's landscapes are built by unconventional shapes, formed by jagged lines that twist and turn at abrupt angles. This exotic, geometric perception has provided a strange, almost digital sense of modernity in his work.