CHEN QIKUAN (CHEN CHI-KWAN, 1921-2007)
CHEN QIKUAN (CHEN CHI-KWAN, 1921-2007)

Where is Arcadia?

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CHEN QIKUAN (CHEN CHI-KWAN, 1921-2007)
Where is Arcadia?
Hanging scroll
Ink and colour on paper
92.5 x 22.5 cm. (36 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Executed circa 1960-1964
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist, New York, 1982
Shuisongshi Shanfang Collection
The Franz Collection
Literature
Hugh Moss, The Experience of Art: Twentieth Century Chinese Paintings from the Shuisongshi Shanfang Collection, Hong Kong, 1983, cover and pp. 144-145

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Lot Essay

"People often only see the colours but not the space,
Only see the visible but not the invisible,
Only see the solid but not the void,
Only see the substance but not the space between substances,
Only emphasize the architecture but not the thing that defines its space--the street,
Only see the architecture but not the environs that influence its atmosphere.”

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