Provenance
Beijing ChengXuan Auctions Co., Ltd., 18 December 2017, lot 672
Private Collection, Asia
Literature
Rita Wong, SANYU Catalogue Raisonné: Drawings and Watercolours, Taipei, 2014, no. D0108, electronic index p.16 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
“The female figures in some of [Sanyu’s] sketches and watercolours are distorted in such a way that the feet and lower half of their bodies are grossly and massively oversized while their head is drastically reduced in scale. The optical effect is that of a surrealist photographic conceit derived from the surprising angling, dramatic foreshortening, or special mirror distortion, that emphatically magnifies parts of a female body to yield a biomorphic mass, as seen in André Kertész’ Distortion series, produced in Paris in the early 1930s. Sanyu’s composition therefore both affirms the cursive drawing suggestive of automatism and the mirroring space suggested by the implied camera lens, a mirror with memory.” (Eugene Wang, Sanyu: a Chinese Surrealist in Paris in ‘Sanyu l’écriture du corps’, Skira, 2004, p. 63)

Sanyu’s distorted female bodies refer to multiple inspirations: the joyful explorations of the body and its limits to the manner of Henri Moore, the surrealist representation of the subconscious and the access to another level of intangible reality as a metamorphosis of the realm of dreams and fantasies, in a continuity of the same quest throughout artists of the time and mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture and photography.

André Kertesz
Distorsion n° 60, 1933
Collection Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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44

Sanyu

Seated woman with extended leg

signed ‘Yu [in Chinese] SANYU’ lower left
ink and charcoal on paper
45.3 x 27.8 cm (17 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

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Foujita/Sanyu: Muses and Models

Hong Kong Selling Exhibition 18-31 May 2019

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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Nude with Raised Arms
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Sanyu
Seated Woman
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Contemplating Woman
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Kneeling Nude
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Nu allongé, Madeleine
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Portrait de Madame Hélène Berthelot
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Sanyu
Femme à la fleur (Woman smelling flowers)
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Madeleine
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Naiade
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Sanyu
Reclining nude
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Seated Nude
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Seated Nude
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Seated Nude
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Reclining Nude
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Sanyu
Woman’s Leg
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Standing Nude
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Sanyu
Woman Drawing
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Sanyu
Woman’s Profile
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Profil de jeune femme blonde au chignon (Portrait of a blond young girl with a bun)
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Le mépris
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Petite fille avec deux chats
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Sanyu
Reclining Nude
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Madeleine Sleeping
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Sanyu
Seated woman drawing
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Sanyu
Standing Man
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Seated woman
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Sanyu
Etudes de main (Study of hands)
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Les deux amies
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Sanyu
Seated woman with extended leg
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Sanyu
Standing nude with bended leg
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Sanyu
Femme nu assise (Reclining nude)
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