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    GEORGE CHANN (1913-1995)

    Abstract

    Oil on Canvas
    50x40cm

    Signed GEO. CHANN in English

    Estimate TWD 260,000-360,000
    USD 8,600-11,900
    HKD 0-0

    Hammer Price TWD 312,000
    USD 10,435
    HKD 82,105

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George Chann was born in Guangdong, China in the year of 1913 and later moved to the United States during his teens. Awarded with a full scholarship by the Otis Institute of Art in Los Angeles in 1934, he attended the school to began stringent training in sketching and realistic oil painting. He graduated with a bachelor's and a master's degree later and has fostered a strong attainment in western arts. During the 40s, he was recognized by the curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Roland J,. McKinney, for his grass root realistic painting and later held personal exhibitions continuously in many well-known museums, museums of fine arts, and galleries, and was deeply appreciated by important press media; San Francisco Chronicle has written back in 1942: “George Chann's rich-of-emotion portraits of children and adults have a reached an absolute perfection; he has so successfully conveyed the melancholiness, pondering, and desire.”

The artist explores modern painting method, and freely and precisely disposes the revivals of conventions and automatism and thus builds up a line of imaginations of the patterns and lines of the ancient characters. The image of “Abstract” rhythmically dances among the flowing colors, full of elaborated scenes and fun. As an early immigrant, George Chann's abstract paintings stemmed from the seeking and exploring of the “Chinese experiences,” and yet he has taken up the forward-looking thinking pattern of the western modern creativity, and hence the ever-lasting self-transcending. Having absorbed both the western and eastern elements, he has finally extended his distinct abstract art and affirmatively and vividly established the cultural identity of himself.

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