Tong Zhengang
A Joyful Day
Estimate: 80.000 - 100.000 HKD
Price realised: 84.000 HKD
Price realised: 84.000 HKD
Description
TONG ZHENGANG (BORN 1959)
A Joyful Day
Scroll, mounted and framed, mixed media on paper
69.5 x 41 cm. (27 1/3 x 55 1/2 in.)
Signed, with five seals of the artist
NOTE:
Born in Xinjiang, Tong Zhengang graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 1989. He is an outstanding contemporary artist who is multi-talented and excels in calligraphy, seal carving and painting. He is fond of adopting a relatively traditional screen-like structure to create a flat decorative style and achieve rich colour and ink with an unlimited complexity of textural effects. Using different subjects and by varying the arrangement of space, a screen-like frame can be divided into four entirely different segments; yet the resplendent, warm and cheerful colour tones bring them into harmony. These levels do not ahve depth of perspective. Instead, the artist wisely focuses on a striking visual effect and unrestrained composition in the process of constructing space in a flat way. After twenty years of contemplation and experimentation, Tong has developed his own artistic symbols and a unique style. Furthermore, the artist seeks to merge the loftiness of traditional li
Tong loves calligraphy and has received several awards. Through long practice of painting and writing, he deeply understands the intense tension of calligraphic lines and the beauty of its abstract composition. Thus, when Tong confidently employs different materials to break through the limitations of ink representation, he never abandons the traditional use of the brush tip and bone-method brushwork. He also studies seal-engravign and carves all his seals himself. Inscriptions and seals on his paintings are not mere "captions" and "seals". They are incorporated into the painting composition with a definitive role and are part of the overalll balance, thus creating anextraordinary flavour in Tong's works.
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A Joyful Day
Scroll, mounted and framed, mixed media on paper
69.5 x 41 cm. (27 1/3 x 55 1/2 in.)
Signed, with five seals of the artist
NOTE:
Born in Xinjiang, Tong Zhengang graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 1989. He is an outstanding contemporary artist who is multi-talented and excels in calligraphy, seal carving and painting. He is fond of adopting a relatively traditional screen-like structure to create a flat decorative style and achieve rich colour and ink with an unlimited complexity of textural effects. Using different subjects and by varying the arrangement of space, a screen-like frame can be divided into four entirely different segments; yet the resplendent, warm and cheerful colour tones bring them into harmony. These levels do not ahve depth of perspective. Instead, the artist wisely focuses on a striking visual effect and unrestrained composition in the process of constructing space in a flat way. After twenty years of contemplation and experimentation, Tong has developed his own artistic symbols and a unique style. Furthermore, the artist seeks to merge the loftiness of traditional li
Tong loves calligraphy and has received several awards. Through long practice of painting and writing, he deeply understands the intense tension of calligraphic lines and the beauty of its abstract composition. Thus, when Tong confidently employs different materials to break through the limitations of ink representation, he never abandons the traditional use of the brush tip and bone-method brushwork. He also studies seal-engravign and carves all his seals himself. Inscriptions and seals on his paintings are not mere "captions" and "seals". They are incorporated into the painting composition with a definitive role and are part of the overalll balance, thus creating anextraordinary flavour in Tong's works.
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Auction result well in line with expectations
The work A Joyful Day by Tong Zhengang was auctioned at Christies in Hong Kong in May 2007. The estimated price for the artwork was previously given by the auction house with a range of HKD 80,000.00 – 100,000.00, the actual price achieved of HKD 84,000.00 (€ 7,998.51) could thus just exceed the lower estimate. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Tong Zhengang - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Boredom · Ruyi Scepter, which sold at auction in October 2013 for HKD 287,500.00 (€ 27,282.26).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit A Joyful Day von Tong Zhengang kam im Mai 2007 bei Christies in Hong Kong zur Auktion. Der Schätzpreis für das Kunstwerk wurde von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit einer Spanne von HKD 80.000,00 – 100.000,00 angegeben, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis von HKD 84.000,00 (€ 7.998,51) konnte den unteren Schätzpreis somit knapp übertreffen. Für andere Arbeiten von Tong Zhengang mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Boredom · Ruyi Scepter beobachtet, die im Oktober 2013 für HKD 287.500,00 (€ 27.282,26) versteigert wurde.
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