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Hu Yongkai b.1945- Painting for sale

Posted By: Dan
Posted Date: Jan 11, 2010 (08:27 PM)

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Have any clients that collect contemporary Asian art? I have a nice painting by Hu Yongkai for sale.

20 1/2" x 20 1/2" (52.1cm x 52.1cm)

This painting is 20 1/2" x 20 1/2" acrylic on paper in excellent condition. Has an Beijing East Gallery label on the verso. You can check his auction results on www.artnet.com and you will see his works bring very good prices.

Email me for more information to purchase it.

Here is some information on Hu Yongkai b.1945-

http://www.fineartgalleryhk.com/gallery/chinese/artists1.phtml?strForceLang=en&ArtistsID=10

http://www.zeestone.com/artistp.php?artistID=30

Hu Yongkai has established a reputation both in China and the West for his depictions of elegant ladies at leisure in garden pavilions or old-style Chinese houses. His work reflects traditional Chinese painting but at the same time displays Western influences. Hu's subject matter is romantic and nostalgic, describing a bygone age, yet his vision is surprisingly contemporary. His ladies may be daydreaming from a window, luxuriating in their bath, or demurely sitting on Qing Dynasty furniture with birdcages and fans - but they do not seem remote from the modern viewer.

Born in Beijing in 1945, Hu graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1964. Though he received instruction in the techniques of traditional Chinese painting, the main focus was on Western style oil painting. As a student, Hu particularly admired Van Gogh and Gauguin. After graduation, he became art director of the Shanghai Animation Film Studios, a post he held until 1985. As part of his duties, he painted cartoons, always managing to include little animals wherever possible. This influence is still evident in his work today.

During the Cultural Revolution, film studios staff were sent to the countryside south of Shanghai. Despite the demands of hard physical work, Hu made a lot of sketches recording detailed observations of farm buildings and village houses, peasant families and the rhythms of country life, later a valuable fund of inspiration. Chinese New Year pictures and papercuts made by peasants with no artistic training made a deep impression, as did the women of the region, reputed to be the most beautiful in China.

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