Live Auction 1690120th Century Art Day Sale
CHU TEH-CHUN (ZHU DEQUN, 1920-2014)
Lot 341 PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

CHU TEH-CHUN (ZHU DEQUN, 1920-2014)

Composition no. 25

Closed2 December 2021

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HKD 1,250,000

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CHU TEH-CHUN (ZHU DEQUN, 1920-2014)
Composition no. 25
signed in Chinese, signed ‘CHU TEHCHUN' (lower right); signed, dated and titled ‘CHU TEH-CHUN 1960 No. 25’ (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
55.5 x 37 cm. (21 7⁄8 x 14 5⁄8 in.)
Painted in 1960

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 April 2011, lot 637
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

The authenticity of the artwork has been confirmed by Fondation Chu Teh-Chun, Geneva. If a certificate has not already been issued, a certificate of authenticity can be requested for the successful buyer.

Specialist note

'By fusing Western colour ideology and the abstract Lines of calligraphy, I hope to mold a new style of abstract painting: one that can express the ineffable qualities of classical Chinese poetry, and abstract conceptions that can only be sensed or felt. Given what the Western critics have been saying about my work, they seem to have understood that I am searching for something different from those of Western abstract artists.' – Chu Teh-Chun