Lot 691: WANG YIDONG

WANG YIDONG B. 1955 GYMNASIUM signed in pinyin and Chinese and dated 1986 (lower right) Executed in 1986 oil on canvas 76 by 75.8 cm.; 30 by 29 7/8 in.

Private Asian Collection (Sold: Sotheby's, Hong Kong, October, 1995)

"Art and technique and spiritual language coexist and are bound together, creating a unique form. Masterly skill and an understanding of life's essential beauty blend together as a result of direct experience and depend on one's knowledge, understanding and grasp of life. The perfect mastery of artistic technique is unattainable. Skill can only be developed through natural understanding. Usually I only paint subject matter that I am very familiar with and that are close to my life. The deeper the feeling, the easier it is to use my own artistic language to express myself."[1]
– Wang Yidong

[1]Fine Pieces of New Realistic Oil Painting of Chinese Masters, Shanghai Brilliant Publishing House, China, 2001, p.57