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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    YUN GEE (1906-1963)

    Still Life

    1940-1950

    Oil on Canvas
    63.5 x 76 cm

    Signed Yun Gee in English

    Estimate TWD 5,000,000-7,500,000
    USD 169,500-254,200
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 5,310,000
    USD 177,295
    HKD 0

Provenance：Acquired from Yun Gee\\\'s doughter in New York

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A prominent pioneer Chinese artist of the 20th Century, Yun Gee has lived in three continents. Beginning from Asia and influenced by the modern arts of United States and Europe, he has secured a place in Western Arts. With artworks transcending the cultural barrier of Eastern and Western, his unique personality outstands and demonstrates significance during the turbulent international atmosphere. 
Taken care by his relatives in 1921, Yun Gee has relocated to the United States in 1921. Educated by the orthodox Synchronism and later to the prosperous Paris in 1927, she was exposed to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Dadaism etc… Influenced by the avant-garde European arts, her discovery in color and composition has opened up a new page in her art style. For his whole life, Yun Gee has unceasingly demonstrated different creations and has expanded her art affections into each phase in life.  
His career is closely related to her life experiences. With the historical, geography background and her personal experiences, his art style has changed from time to time. From the Great Depression in 1929 to 1933; World War Two from 1939 to 1945 have brought out the lonesome feeling and economic deprivation in his artworks. 
Created during the period of 1940 to 1950, he has just moved back to New York from Paris and began his life journey of marriage with Helen Wimmer, new born daughter, and unfortunately the end of the marriage. 
A great deal of olive green tone is utilized in this painting and extended the influence of Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams” by using dark depressing colors. Motivated by avant-garde thoughts, he abandoned academic over-crafting and instead sought after the utmost originality and vitality. The multiple vision composition created a mysterious and unclear tranquility. 
The blossoming flowers and laying rabbits created a strong contrast in his painting. Within this strong tension, the portrait reflected a metaphor of the exchange of life and death. In this still moment, the artists enabled viewers to feel the dramatic plot of literature and drama and even expressed the creativity from life experiences of the artist.

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