SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil

The back cover of a gray-beige book, shown at an angle on a white background. In the center is a primitive-style painting with a black background featuring stylized, floating figures of white horses, one with brown spots, and a pink arm. A barcode is visible at the bottom.

A hardcover art book titled SANYU, His Life and Complete Works in Oil, Volume One by Rita Wong, shown at an angle on a white background. The sepia-toned dust jacket features a collage with a black and white photograph of the artist and one of his floral paintings.

An overhead shot of a two-page spread in an open art book titled Académie de la Grande Chaumière. The left page has text and black-and-white photos of an art studio. The right page displays three modernist ink drawings of nude figures.

An overhead shot of an open art book. The two-page spread is from a chapter titled The Salon Exhibitions and features text alongside four reproductions of paintings, including two vertical floral works and two horizontal works depicting horses in different styles.

An open art book displaying a two-page spread of paintings by Henri-Pierre Roché. The left page shows two stylized nudes and a cat on a chair. The right page features two still lifes of flowers, one in a vase under a glass dome.

A product shot of two art books, SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil, Volume One and Volume Two by Rita Wong, standing on a white surface. Volume One features a black-and-white photo of the artist in his studio on the cover, while Volume Two features one of his black-and-white abstract paintings.

A product shot of two hardcover art books titled SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil by Rita Wong, stacked askew against a white background. The top book's cover features a sepia-toned photograph of the artist and a flower painting, with the name SANYU in large, salmon-pink letters.

A book cover with a split design. On the left is a grainy, black-and-white photograph of the artist Sanyu, an East Asian man with glasses looking toward the viewer. On the right, a white background features the text: SANYU, His Life and Complete Works in Oil, Volume One, His Life, Rita Wong, along with publisher logos.

A two-page spread from a book. On the left is a naive-style painting of a figure in a black top hat and coat riding a spotted white horse on a patch of green. The right page displays the table of contents for Volume One of the book.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page contains English text and a small black-and-white artwork. The right page displays a large color painting by Sanyu, titled Nude on Tapestry. The painting depicts a stylized nude figure lying on their stomach on a white, patterned cloth, with their head turned to look at the viewer.

A two-page spread from a book, pages 72 and 73, about Henri-Pierre Roché. The left page shows a black-and-white portrait of Roché in a suit next to columns of text. The right page features two paintings by Sanyu and a column of text: a large horizontal reclining nude outlined in black, and below it, a smaller vertical still life of flowers in a vase.

A two-page spread from an art book about printmaking, displaying text and five linocut prints by the artist Sanyu. The left page shows two prints of a vase of flowers, one in red and one in black, and a red print of a nude figure reclining in a chair. The right page shows two black linocuts, one of a zebra and one of a leopard.

A two-page spread from a book about art during World War II, numbered pages 116 and 117. The pages contain columns of text and feature three paintings. On the left is Pan Yuliang's Massacre and Sanyu's Potted Peonies with Blue Leaves. On the right is Sanyu's Lotus in a Carbou Vase.

An open art book displays a two-page spread. The left page features a large color reproduction of Sanyu's painting, Five Nudes, showing five stylized nude women standing against a magenta background on a yellow floor. The right page and the area around the painting on the left contain columns of black text.

A two-page spread from an art book. On the left page is a black-and-white photograph of a man sitting on a desk and a woman sitting in a chair in a sunlit room. On the right page are two color paintings; the top one is an abstract piece with a green form, and the bottom one shows a small yellow tiger in a dark, minimalist landscape.

A two-page spread from an art book. On the left, a minimalist painting shows a nude figure with black outlines lying on her stomach on a cream-colored surface. On the right, a painting shows a dark vase with bare branches against a bold red background. Both pages contain blocks of text, and the right page includes two smaller inset images of an invitation and a line drawing.

SANYU: His Life and Complete Works in Oil

Volume One: His Life

€ 88.00

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Author: Rita Wong

Graphic Design: Glenn Suokko

English

April 2024, 248 Pages

Hardcover with American Dust Jacket

100mm x 100mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5662-4

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Sanyu: His Life and Works in Oil traces the life of the Chinese artist (1895-1966) from his early years in China and Japan, to his artistic experimentation and development in Paris and New York, ending in his tragic death, impoverished and forgotten. Today, however, Sanyu is one of the most coveted Chinese modern artists. An examination of his life reveals that it was precisely the polarities and tensions he experienced that spurred him to create a unique pictorial language that so dynamically integrated the spirit of Western modernity with centuries-old established Chinese traditions. Sanyu metamorphosed from a Chinese artist of the modern period to a modernist with Chinese cultural roots. These intersecting dynamics resulted in a hybridization previously unseen. Featuring examples of his works of all genres and drawing on a wealth of archival material as well as personal stories recounted by people who knew Sanyu, this biography is the most comprehensive record of Sanyu's life to date.