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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LÉVY FAMILY
SANYU (CHANG YU, 1895-1966)
Cheval agenouillé sur un tapis (Kneeling Horse on Carpet)
Details
SANYU (CHANG YU, 1895-1966)
Cheval agenouillé sur un tapis (Kneeling Horse on Carpet)
signed in Chinese and signed 'SANYU' (lower right)
oil on masonite
image: 49 x 74.2 cm. (19 1⁄4 x 29 1⁄4 in.)
overall: 53.5 x 78 cm. (21 1⁄8 x 30 3⁄4 in.)
Painted in the 1950s-1960s
Cheval agenouillé sur un tapis (Kneeling Horse on Carpet)
signed in Chinese and signed 'SANYU' (lower right)
oil on masonite
image: 49 x 74.2 cm. (19 1⁄4 x 29 1⁄4 in.)
overall: 53.5 x 78 cm. (21 1⁄8 x 30 3⁄4 in.)
Painted in the 1950s-1960s
Provenance
Collection of the Lévy family, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
R. Wong (ed.), Sanyu Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings, YAGEO Foundation and Lin & Keng Art Publications, Taipei, 2001 (illustrated, plate 200, p. 321).
R. Wong (ed.), Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings Volume II, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2011 (illustrated, plate 200, p. 139).
R. Wong, SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil Volume Two, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2024 (illustrated, plate LCF283, pp. 324, 555 & 556).
R. Wong (ed.), Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonné: Oil Paintings Volume II, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2011 (illustrated, plate 200, p. 139).
R. Wong, SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil Volume Two, The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, 2024 (illustrated, plate LCF283, pp. 324, 555 & 556).
Exhibited
Taipei, National Museum of History, In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, 13 October - 2 December 2001 (illustrated, p. 188).
Nice, Departmental Museum of Asian Arts, SANYU: The Line at Work, 15 February - 15 June 2025 (illustrated, p.131)
Nice, Departmental Museum of Asian Arts, SANYU: The Line at Work, 15 February - 15 June 2025 (illustrated, p.131)
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