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    LIU KUOSUNG (b.1932)

    Lunar Eclipse No.73

    1971

    Ink and Color on Paper
    118×67.5cm

    With one seal of the artist

    Estimate TWD 1,550,000-2,300,000
    USD 51,700-76,700
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 1,770,000
    USD 58,033
    HKD 0

Provenance：

Illustrated：''A Universe Of His Own'', Chan Liu Art Museum, May 2004, Page 70

Exhibition：''A Universe Of His Own'', Hong Kong Art Museum, Feb 2004

Exposition：

Liu Guo Song observed and studied in United States in 1966, he saw the pictures of Apolo 8th returning from the moon and developed the series “what is our earth?” and entered the era of space painting.
''Lunar Eclipse No. 73'' belongs to the space painting series, the lower half of the moon is an eclipse, presenting the surface texture with big strokes. The wrinkly lower part of the canvas represents the beauty of the canyons. Since 1969, Liu Guo Song has presented a new visual imagination and reflection of a new universe. Using such describe the co-existing earth, sun, moon, the painting is unprecedented. 

 

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