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Tokyo from the Window
Details
WU GUANZHONG (1919-2010)
Tokyo from the Window
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
53 x 47 cm. (20 7⁄8 x 18 ½ in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated October, 1988
NOTE:
In October 1988, the exhibition Chinese Modern Painting Master — Wu Guanzhong, organized by the Seibu Department Store, was held in Tokyo, and the artist was invited to attend. This trip to Japan offered Wu fresh creative material drawn from Tokyo’s modern urban landscape. He produced a small number of oil paintings and watercolor sketches based on local scenes — this work is one such example. Another piece, Tokyo Sketch, also dated to the same year, features a similar composition. Based on the artist’s own inscription, the present work was executed after Wu’s return to Beijing.
Tokyo from the Window
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
53 x 47 cm. (20 7⁄8 x 18 ½ in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated October, 1988
NOTE:
In October 1988, the exhibition Chinese Modern Painting Master — Wu Guanzhong, organized by the Seibu Department Store, was held in Tokyo, and the artist was invited to attend. This trip to Japan offered Wu fresh creative material drawn from Tokyo’s modern urban landscape. He produced a small number of oil paintings and watercolor sketches based on local scenes — this work is one such example. Another piece, Tokyo Sketch, also dated to the same year, features a similar composition. Based on the artist’s own inscription, the present work was executed after Wu’s return to Beijing.
Provenance
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Paintings, 7 April 2006, Lot 140.
Literature
Emotion & Innovation: Wu Guanzhong’s Wash Painting Career, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, May 2004, p. 133.
The Complete Works of Wu Guanzhong I, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, August 2007, p. 281.
The Complete Works of Wu Guanzhong I, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, August 2007, p. 281.
Exhibited
Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, Emotion & Innovation: Wu Guanzhong’s Wash Painting Career, June 2004.
Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Emotion & Innovation: Wu Guanzhong’s Wash Painting Career, 2-10 July, 2004.
Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Emotion & Innovation: Wu Guanzhong’s Wash Painting Career, 2-10 July, 2004.
Brought to you by
Carmen Shek Cerne (石嘉雯)
Vice President, Head of Department, Chinese Paintings