Live Auction 15953Chinese Contemporary Ink
WANG YONG (B. 1948)
Lot 839

WANG YONG (B. 1948)

Calligraphy in Cursive Script

Closed28 May 2018

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HKD 525,000

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WANG YONG (B. 1948)
Calligraphy in Cursive Script


Scroll, mounted and framed
Ink on paper
66.5 x 132.5 cm. (26 1/8 x 52 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2015

Specialist note

Born in 1948 in Beijing, Wang Yong entered Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1979 under the tutelage of Li Keran and Liang Shulian. A consummate painter, calligrapher and seal carver, Wang, in dialogue with the antiquity, reinvigorates the calligraphy of ancient China with renewed mastery and vitality.