Sanyu - Foujita/Sanyu: Muses and Models Hong Kong Sunday, March 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artist)
    Private Collection, France

  • Literature

    Rita Wong, SANYU Catalogue Raisonné: Drawings and Watercolours, Taipei, 2014, no. D1424, on the website www.artofsanyu.org p. 9 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Sanyu was obsessed by horizontal compositions, no doubt because his solid, static vibrant nudes are linked to an almost universal theme whether it concerns Greek or Roman gods, Etruscan sarcophagi or medieval gisants, Aztec or Hindu divinities, or nearer to us, the nudes of Renoir, Maillol, Matisse and Picasso. The nude is an excuse for every and any metamorphosis. It is precisely with these nudes lying on the ground, on carpets or floating horizontally that he began to paint in 1929.”
    Jean-Paul Desroches, Du nu au paysage : errance ou itinéraire? in ‘Sanyu, l’écriture du corps’, 2004, p. 27

33

Reclining Nude

pencil on paper
25 x 32.5 cm (9 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.)

Estimate On Request

Foujita/Sanyu: Muses and Models

Hong Kong Selling Exhibition 18-31 May 2019