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Zhong Cheng 2024 Autumn Auction「Modern And Contemporary Art」

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    GEORGE CHANN (1913-1995)

    Abstraction

    1950

    Oil on Canvas
    101 x 60 cm

    Signed GEO. CHANN in English

    Estimate TWD 1,500,000-2,000,000
    USD 45,000-60,000
    HKD 375,000-500,000

    Hammer Price TWD 1,904,000
    USD 57,120
    HKD 476,000

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In a movie "Jackson Pollock" in a cold winter day a painter at his last shift incidentally noticed the pigments on the ground and later became an abstract master in America. Similarly, in 50?s George Chann living in America used Chinese calligraphy for the inscripition-oracle bone inscriptions, bronze wessels, and all types of standard scripts, running scripts, semi-curire, and cursive scripts. While taking the rubbings and printings, he used solvents to soften, cut and pieces together, and paste words on a canvas. This work of his early stage has fragmented, broken, and inconsistent and weird Chinese characters, which is an import art in his interim period between the monochrome stage and the following colorful, textural stage.

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