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LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991) Owl image 1
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Lot 225

LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)
Owl

15 May 2025, 11:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)

Owl
Ink and colour on paper, with signature and seal of the artist, mounted, glazed and framed. The painting, 22cm (8 5/8in) wide x 23cm (9in) high.

Footnotes

林風眠 設色紙本 貓頭鷹 鏡框
款識:林風眠
鈐印:林風瞑印

Provenance: an Asian private collection

來源:亞洲私人收藏

Lin Fengmian (1900–1991) was a pioneering Chinese artist who fused Western modernism with traditional Chinese art. Born in Meixian, Guangdong, he moved to Shanghai in 1919 before studying at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and later in Paris under Fernand Cormon, immersing himself in both Western and Chinese art at the Musée Guimet. Returning to China in 1926, he modernised Chinese art education, organising the Beiping Art Convention and becoming the first director of the Hangzhou Academy in 1928, where he sought to merge Eastern and Western artistic traditions. After the Second World War, the academy returned to Hangzhou, but he was removed as director in 1952 and later suffered during the Cultural Revolution, destroying much of his work. Moving to Hong Kong in 1977, he lived in seclusion before gaining late recognition for his contributions to modern Chinese art. His students, including Zao Wou-Ki, Wu Guanzhong, Li Keran, and Zhu Dequn, became leading modernist painters, and in 2000, a major Beijing exhibition honoured his legacy.

See a related painting of an owl by Lin Fengmian which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1 April 2019, lot 1289.

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