SANYU (Chang Yu, 1895-1966) Goldfish signed in Chinese and signed ‘SANYU’ (lower right) oil on canvas 73.8 x 50.2 cm. (29 x 19 3/4 in.) Painted in the 1930s–1940s
Provenance
Robert Frank, New York, USA Sotheby's Taipei, Robert Frank’s Sanyu, 19 October, 1997, lot 9 Yageo Collection, Taiwan Sotheby’s Hong Kong 40th Anniversary Evening Sale, 5 October 2013, lot 7 Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Literature
The Andrea Frank Foundation, Sanyu Scholarship Fund, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 1998 (illustrated, cover of brochure) Rita Wong ed., Sanyu Catalogue Raisonné Oil Paintings, Yageo Foundation, Lin & Keng Art Publications, Taipei, Taiwan, 2001 (illustrated, plate 71, p. 176 – 177) National Museum of History, In Search of a Homeland-The Art of San Yu, Taipei, Taiwan, 2001 (illustrated, plate 51, p. 98). Skira editore, ARAA, Sanyu: l'écriture du corps (Language of the Body), Milan, Italy, 2004 (illustrated, plate 78, p.180) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Madonna Meets Mao, Dresden, Germany, 2008 (illustrated, p. 56-57). Gu Yue ed., A Complete Collection of World Famous Paintings - Sanyu, Hebei Education Press, Shijiazhuang, China, 2010 (illustrated, p. 176) Rita Wong, ed., Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings Volume Two, The Li-Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011 (illustrated, plate 71, p.124)
Exhibited
Taipei, Taiwan, National Museum of History, In Search of a Homeland - The Art of San Yu, 13 October - 2 December 2001 Paris, France, The Guimet Museum, Sanyu: l'écriture du corps (Language of the Body), 16 June – 13 September 2004 Dresden, Germany, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Madonna Meets Mao, 31 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
