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    CHIU YATSAI (1949-2013)

    A Lady in Red and Yellow

    1998

    Oil on Canvas
    130x98cm

    Signed Ya-Tsai in Chinese

    Estimate TWD 1,500,000-2,100,000
    USD 49,000-68,600
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 2,006,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

With a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist

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He loves to paint, he loves to write, Chiu Ya-Tsai devoted his entire life to be the author of creations. He portrays his figures with great enthusiasm, while allowing his mind to sink in the simplicity and innocence of art and humanity. However, in his mind hides numerous fairies that construct his thoughts, they intimately enclose on his imagination, emotions, and depression from a subjective point of view. Constructing on objective observation through realistic elaboration, not only is he concerned about the representation that belong to life itself but also the intent to exploring the subconscious mind. 

In this painting, A Lady in Red and Yellow, the simplicity of lines and colors creates an elegant figure, an introvert with elongated features. The painting suggests a sense of poetic melancholy atmosphere that is both peaceful yet lonely. Through the delicate contour, depicts the essence of oriental aesthetic. Chiu Ya-Tsai’s requirement for beauty and standards are emphasized, it directly represents the Neo-Classical doctrine within contemporary Chinese paintings.

Thus, in his civilian selection for subjects, he paints the timeless oval face and deep eyes, to reflect his notion, “Artist need to paint subjects for moral education, in order to achieve enlightenment within the community, in result one’s work can enhance and examine one’s soul.” Through his determination, we verify his past of feeling like an outsider by others; they either made him feel poor or unwelcomed. However his main realization was turned to the repeated refusal to social norms is actually compromise of lost soul, he official made his counterattack on standards of education, attempting to not reveal his inner thoughts, he takes force from his unhappy childhood, as his source of creation. Today, his artworks are greatly valued in auction houses everywhere.

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