Lot 83
Estimate: £3,500 - £4,500
Auction: 08 November 2024 from 10:00 GMT
韓美林(1936- ) 雙鱖魚圖 水墨紙本設色
識文: 鱖/戊午年二月/學新(月/日)志正文?
鈐印: 美林
ink and colour on paper, painted with two mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi) in ink and brown shades, dated to the cyclical Wu Wu year (1978), signed and one seals of the artist, unframed
60.5cm x 56cm
Private collection, London; the artist gave the painting to his friend, who was a professor in an Art Academy in Anhui, when he was teaching in Anhui Academy of Painting (1979-1985), thence by descent (by repute)
倫敦私人收藏;韓美林於1979-85年間在安徽畫院任教時,贈送給藝校教授的好友,後由家族遞藏(據傳)
Han Meilin (b. 1936) is a celebrated Chinese painter, known for his ink paintings of charming and loveable animals, and most recognised today for his creation of the Fuwa dolls for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Siniperca chuatsi, the mandarin fish (Chinese: 鱖魚), is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Sinipercidae, and found in lowland freshwater habitats throughout continental East Asia. Like his other animal paintings, this fish painting seeks to visualize the essence of its subject using simple forms and a minimal colour palette.
韓美林,1936年生於中國山東濟南。創作涉及廣泛,包括繪畫、書法、雕塑、陶瓷、設計以及寫作等方面。藝術風格獨到,致力於從中國文化傳統和大眾藝術中汲取精髓,並轉化為體現當代審美理念的藝術作品。2008申奧會徽、2008北京奧運吉祥物福娃出其妙筆,深得民心。韓美林筆下的鱖魚像他其他動物畫,試圖以簡易的輪廓及形式和極簡的色調來形象化其主題的本質。