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    LUO ZHONGLI (b.1948)

    Village Restaurant

    1984

    Oil on Canvas
    73.7x59cm

    Signed Luo in English and Chinese, Luo Zhong-Li in Chinese, dated 1984 on the reverse

    Estimate TWD 3,800,000-4,600,000
    USD 126,700-153,300
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 4,956,000
    USD 0
    HKD 0

Provenance：PROVENANCE Acquired by the original owner directly from the artist Private Asian Collection Christie\\\\\\\'s Hong Kong, Asian 20th Century Art (Day Sale), 27 May 2012, Lot 2130

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Born in Chongqing in 1948, Luo Zhong Li moved to the rural village of Daba mountain after graduating from the attached school of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1968 for 10 years. His art vision is gentle and pursuits a natural and practical rural style. With unrefined brushstrokes, he recorded the lives of rural farmers and tried to present the essence of beauty in this natural approach. He respected and loved this pure and innocent virtue. He incorporated the depth and dignity of humanity and through reflecting introspection, his artworks strongly reflects his social responsibility and also the observation and realization of the Chinese new intellectuals. He is a representative of the popular art movements of “scar art” and “local realism” in 1980s and tenured vice chairman of the Chinese Artist Association, the curator of Chongqing Museum and the Minister of Sichuan Art Institute. His achievements include Sichuan Art phenomena. The deceased chief editor of Chinese Art Association Jiang Feng honored him the name of the “Chinese Millet”. 

Luo Zhong Li once said “I need to train myself and accumulate experiences with quantity, and I am devoted to paint rural farmers and local theme as my profession.” He intentionally painted the difficult yet simple rural lives of the Da Shan farmers and expressed their vicissitudes and the delight, anger, sorrow and happiness. His delicate yet truthful approach reveals a rural atmosphere. The lands of Da Ba Mountain and variant folk custom have become the fertilizers of his creativity. “Village Restaurant” was painted in 1984 to depict the plain and real rural lives. The primal and rough tools, the wooden furniture led viewers to the poetic fields. Simple food is presented on wooden tabletop in the middle of the painting. Two pairs of chopsticks imply the anticipation of the farmer’s wife for her husband. The painting is full of rich rural affection.

In his familiar rural culture, Luo Zhong Li discovers a stream of life to become the foundation of his life and affections. The continual and birth of life on the mountain along with China’s rural civilization enchanted him and is still his spiritual sanctuary. 

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