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1001 Born in Panama, Luis Chan moved to Hong Kong in 1910 and spent his
LUIS CHAN (CHEN FUSHAN, 1905-1995) early days working as a typist in a law firm and designing fonts for a ferry
Fantasy Landscape - Beach boat company. A self-taught artist who painted in his spare time, Chan
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper learned through a correspondence course from the Press Art School in
58 x 74 cm. (22 √ x 29 ¿ in.) London. Chan’s art is an expression of his wild imagination; his paintings
One seal of the artist are teeming with childlike whimsy. Often times Chan depicts identifiable
places in Hong Kong (the current painting likely depicts Stanley Beach)
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, USA. in a surreal composition with a kaleidoscopic range of fantastical colours,
and real and mythical creatures.
HK$50,000-80,000 US$6,500-10,000
陳福善，生於巴拿馬，1910 年移居香港。早年從事律師事務所打字員
陳福善 海灘 設色紙本 鏡框 和船務公司設計工作，業餘時間通過倫敦一所藝術學校的函授課程自
修繪畫。陳福善的藝術語言強調作品中所表現出的想像力，充滿著兒
鈐印：陳福善
童式的奇妙想法。他常常以香港著名的景點入畫（本拍品即描繪赤柱
來源：美國私人收藏。 泳灘的風景），作品營造出如萬花筒般夢幻的色彩與場景。

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