Kang Youwei
Calligraphy
Estimate: 30.000 - 40.000 HKD
Price realised: 225.000 HKD
Price realised: 225.000 HKD
Description
KANG YOUWEI (1858-1927)
Calligraphy
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
105.5 x 49.5cm. (41 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated dingsi year (1917)
- PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PUAN SRI ROSALIND YU-PING FOO | Rosalind Foo nee Wong was born in Canton, China, and grew up in Singapore. From 1930 to 1933, she studied fine arts at the Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. Courses taken at the Slade included European art history, drawing and painting, and stage and furniture design. Rosalind continued to pursue her interests in all these subjects throughout her long life. In 1939, Rosalind married Foo Yin Chiew of Ipoh whom she had met in Britain where he had been studying at Oxford and Middle Temple. During World War II, they evacuated to India where Rosalind worked for the American Red Cross as a volunteer. After the War, they moved back to Ipoh to enable her husband to take care of his family's tin-mining interests. Rosalind then concentrated on rai
Calligraphy
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
105.5 x 49.5cm. (41 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated dingsi year (1917)
- PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PUAN SRI ROSALIND YU-PING FOO | Rosalind Foo nee Wong was born in Canton, China, and grew up in Singapore. From 1930 to 1933, she studied fine arts at the Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. Courses taken at the Slade included European art history, drawing and painting, and stage and furniture design. Rosalind continued to pursue her interests in all these subjects throughout her long life. In 1939, Rosalind married Foo Yin Chiew of Ipoh whom she had met in Britain where he had been studying at Oxford and Middle Temple. During World War II, they evacuated to India where Rosalind worked for the American Red Cross as a volunteer. After the War, they moved back to Ipoh to enable her husband to take care of his family's tin-mining interests. Rosalind then concentrated on rai
Artwork auctioned at five times the upper estimate price
When the work Calligraphy by Kang Youwei was auctioned at Christies in Hong Kong in November 2009, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - HKD 40,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than five times as high at HKD 225,000.00 (€ 19,357.74). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Kang Youwei achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Calligraphy in May 2012 with an auction result of HKD 5,660,000.00 (€ 589,621.48).
Kunstwerk zum Fünffachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Calligraphy von Kang Youwei im November 2009 bei Christies in Hong Kong versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – HKD 40.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit HKD 225.000,00 (€ 19.357,74) mehr als fünfmal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Kang Youwei erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Calligraphy im Mai 2012 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von HKD 5.660.000,00 (€ 589.621,48).
Kang Youwei - Auction history
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