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231 Painted in 1967, this composition typifies the abstract landscapes
LIU GUOSONG (LIU KUO-SUNG, BORN 1932) that Liu Guosong introduced to a North American audience through
Canyon Scene, 1967 a series of solo exhibitions in the late 1960’s. A 1967 solo exhibition
Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper, dated 1967, signed Liu at the Lee Nordness Galleries on East 70th Street in New York City
Guosong with one artist’s seal reading Liu Guosong. was reviewed by New York Times art critic John Canaday. Describing
20 1/2 x 22 7/8in (52 x 58cm) the artist’s approach, Canaday notes “ ...a dashing exponent of
traditional Chinese landscape painting hybridized with modern
$25,000 - 40,000 abstraction. His apparently broom-sized brush, filled with ink or
color, charges around the field of the paper with great vigor; seas,
劉國松 峽谷 設色紙本 立軸 一九六七年作 mountains and valleys appear and disappear within the pattern; here
and there the paper seems to have been rent by the weights and
forces that open up chasms—but it is only collage. And all the while,
everything is very elegant.”

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