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YANG ZHIGUANG (BORN 1930)
Impression of India, 1987
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper,
inscribed by the artist with a date of dingmao
deng (winter, 1987), and signed Zhiguang with
one seal of the artist reading Yang Zhiguang.
20 3/4 x 29 3/4in (52.7 x 75.5cm)

$7,000 - 10,000

之 印度印 一九八七
年作

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist in Guangzhou

A native of Guangzhou, Yang Zhiguang began 8293
his study of painting with Gao Jianfu and later
went to Beijing to study at the Central Academy
with Xu Beihong and Ye Qianyu, graduating in
1953. As a practitioner of the Socialist Realist
approach to traditional Chinese painting, the
artist infuses anatomical accuracy while still
embracing the aesthetic of brush and ink.
This painting, created in 1987 when the artist
held a teaching position at the Guangzhou
Academy of Fine Arts (Guangzhou Meishu

ueyuan) reflects an impression of his trip to
India and Nepal two years earlier, in 1985.

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SUN YUNSHENG (1918-2000)
Splashed-color Landscape, 1979
Ink and color on gold paper, mounted for
framing, inscribed with a poetic couplet, dated
liushiba nian liu yue (1979, sixth month) and
signed Sun Yunsheng.
23 x 46 1/4in (58.5 x 117.5)

$5,000 - 7,000 8294

彩 鏡 一九七九年作

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FONG CHUNG RAY
(FENG ZHONGRUI, B. 1933)
Untitled (Abstraction), 1966
Ink and color on paper, framed and
glazed, at lower left signed Feng Zhongrui,
inscribed and dated bingwu (1966)
with one artist’s seal reading Feng.
21 1/2 x 36 1/2in (54.7 x 92.7cm)

$3,000 - 5,000

無 鏡框 一九六六年作

Fong Chung Rui was born in Henan province most recently, he exhibited his paintings at the
into a scholar’s family. Following the end of Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco in
World War II, Fong moved to Taiwan in 1949, 2014, and at Galerie du Monde in Hong Kong
and in 1958 he established the Four Seas in May 2015.
Painting Society 四 畫 with three The present lot is an example of Fong’s
other artists from the Taiwanese navy. In 1961 works from the mid-1960’s, representing his
Fong was invited by Liu Guosong to join the mature style after he turned to non-figurative
influential Fifth Moon Group 五 畫 abstraction in the late 1950’s. In a 2015
and exhibit his paintings. Fong emigrated to interview of the artist, he credited the direct
California in 1975, where he has continued to influence of American Abstract Expressionism
be active. In his decades-long career, Fong on his unique blend of traditional Chinese ink
has held exhibition throughout the world; painting with abstract expression.

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