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999 - CHU TEH CHUN (1920–2014)
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Estimate €20,000 - €30,000
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CHU TEH CHUN (1920–2014) Composition No. 12 – 1959 Gouache on paper Signed top left. Signed and dated on the reverse 57 x 37.5 cm Certificate from the Chu Teh Chun Foundation dated 15 July 2026 Provenance: Estate of the Midi de la France Note: Created in 1959, this gouache belongs to a decisive period in Chu Teh-Chun’s career. Having settled in Paris in 1955, the artist had by then gradually moved away from figurative art, influenced by his discovery of the work of Nicolas de Staël. Between 1958 and the early 1960s, he developed a personal artistic language in which Chinese pictorial tradition and Western lyrical abstraction converged. The works on paper from this period constitute a vital testing ground for his artistic exploration. Gouache allowed him to explore the relationships between light, space and movement with spontaneity. Forms emerge through fluid brushstrokes and calligraphic rhythms, whilst the composition retains the spirit and breath of traditional Chinese landscape painting. Already, Chu was no longer seeking to represent nature but to convey its inner energy and atmospheric phenomena. The year 1959 also marked the artist’s first successes in Paris, following his first solo exhibition in 1958. His abstract vocabulary then asserted itself with a newfound freedom: symbols, masses of colour and transparencies combine to create a poetic space where East and West converge. This gouache thus bears witness to one of the most sought-after phases of Chu Teh-Chun’s career: the development of his personal abstract language, which would lead him, a few years later, to international recognition.
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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