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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  The Yeung Collection II including Works from Various Vendors
• Sale Date:
  24 Jun 2020 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  47
• Lot Description:
  Irene Chou (Zhou Lüyun)
  (1924-2011)
  Untitled
  Ink and colour on paper, framed
  Signed Lüyun (twice), with one seal of the artist
  82.5 x 47.0cm
• Provenance:
  Collection of Rev. Fr. Peter Grice (1943-2019), Brisbane, acquired locally during the 1990s; Private collection, Brisbane
• Notes:
  Irene Chou started her training under Zhao Shao'ang during the 1950s. Some of her more traditional works reflect a deep influence by the Lingnan school, a style which she continued to practice well into the 1960s. Concurrently however, Chou started experimenting with more expansive and abstract compositions. Works by her dated from the mid 1950s saw her borrowing elements from archaic seal scripts and incorporating modernist techniques such as collage. For the next decade or so, Chou continued exploring a variety of traditional and modern styles with no particular clarification of direction. The current lot is most likely a product of this period's intense artistic output. Covered almost overall with layered splashed ink of turquoise and maple, the picture plane presents a vertical landscape of misty jungle. Elements of traditional Chinese painting persist: all the colours incorporated are from guohua, and the tree trunks and branches share the same method of strokes with calligraphy, as is exemplified by the artist's signature. Predominately Chou signs the last character of her name, yun, in the oracle script. Only occasionally does she sign in the regular script, as is with most of her Lingnan-style works and some of her earlier experimental works such as the current lot. Curiously it is signed twice. By the time Chou settled in Brisbane in 1992, she had developed a more focused and consistent style which is what we now recognise as iconically Irene Chou. She continued to paint and exhibit well into her 80s. During the early 1990s, Reverend Father Peter Grice discovered this painting in a local art gallery, and later sold it to a close friend. For two other similarly signed experimental works by Irene Chou, Luohan and Untitled, see Lüyun Hua Yi: Chinese painting by Irene Chou , Feng Pingshan Museum of the Hong Kong University, 1986, P. 14 - 17. Father Peter Grice was an avid collector throughout his life. His collection transcends cultures and periods. The majority of his Asian art, includes Chinese jade, and later porcelain, was sold with Bonhams Sydney and an outstanding success. See Bonhams, Sydney, Asian Art including highlights from the Grice Collection, 13 May 2020, sale 26269
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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