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    YANG SANLANG (1907-1995)

    Riverside

    Oil on Canvas
    63x75.5cm

    Signed S. Yang in English

    Estimate TWD 1,500,000-2,000,000
    USD 0-0
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,593,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

With a certificate of authenticity from Yang San Lang Art Museum

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Yang San-Lang born in 1907 is one of the first generation Taiwanese artists. He has solid foundation in painting skills and devoted to varies art movements that greatly influenced the art history. He is also known as the “Father of Art Movement” in Taiwan. 1927, his artwork “Easter Time” was exhibited in the first Taiwan Art Exhibition and that was when he first became famous. In 1932, he travelled to France with painter Liu Qi-Xiang and observed all masterpieces in major museums in Europe. The following year, he was elected to participate in the France Autumn Salon. He returned to Taiwan with great honors and enthusiastically led Taiwanese art and advocated integration and planning of the art world. Along with Liao Ji-Chun, Chen Deng-Po and Li Shu-Mei, they founded “Taiyang Art Association”. He planned and held art exhibitions and collected artworks from major talents at that time. The Taiwan New Art Movement was a success. When the chairman of Kuoming Dang visited China, he brought along Yang San Lang’s paintings as a gift to the National Chairman Hu Jin-Tao. It serves as the evidence of the importance of Yang in Taiwanese art development.

“Riverside”, the solid layers of oil paint and the warm color tone enriched the humanistic feeling of the painting. Despite liberal brushstrokes, the reflection of lights presented the water, architecture and background sky to be rich and full of layers. The white reflection at the bottom extends to the middle until a stone bridge. Following the gaze and looking up from the architecture at the furthest, it connects to the sky- a seemingly effortless presentation in impressionism. If it were not for the artist’s solid foundation in live sketching, a presentation of the imagination is almost impossible. In other words, only through continual practicing and self-improving, the artist can paint with confidence.

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