【Art hanging painting】Cat climbing on a chair 30x45cm | Chang Yu

＊The mounting process is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Orders may take 1-2 weeks to be processed. Please be patient. Photo paper size: 30x45cm Purchase photo paper only: delivery within 1-3 working days. Photo frame: shipped within 5-10 working days. Product Contents: Output paper: Art micro-spray snow surface art photo paper 310 gsm (can be collected for more than 30 years) (acid-free, non-reflective), aluminum frame, carton shipment Suspension method: There are steel cables on the back of the aluminum frame, which can be hung on the wall by sticking 3M traceless hooks (please purchase the 5kg or above version for safety). https://image-cdn-flare.qdm.cloud/q665027dd6a3a4/image/data/2023/08/05/92025f5f79f95b19b69ef5b90023270b.jpg Work "Cat Climbing on a Chair" Auctioned in 2023, sold for US$2.68 million (approximately NT$82.026 million) Year: 1930 Original size: 50.7×33.4 cm (including frame) Front: Oil on fiberboard, original frame; Back: Oil on paper, mounted on fiberboard. Chang Yu (1895-1966), whose real name was Youshu, was from Nanchong, Sichuan. Born into a wealthy family, he learned painting from his father Chang Shufang at a young age, and also learned calligraphy from the famous artist Zhao Xi. In 1919, he went to Japan to study. In 1921, inspired by Cai Yuanpei's call for "work-study" in France, he went to Paris to study art with the help of his elder brother Chang Junmin, starting his life in France. Sanyu was naturally carefree and unrestrained, and pursued freedom in life and art. He did not study in a regular art academy, but entered the free-spirited Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Unlike his contemporaries such as Xu Beihong and Lin Fengmian who studied in France, he did not return to China to start a school after graduation, but chose to stay in Paris for the rest of his life, becoming one of the very few Chinese representatives of the Paris School of Painting in the 1920s. In the 1920s and 1930s, Sanyu's works were promoted by his friends such as Henri-Pierre Roché, a famous French writer, collector and art dealer, and Johan Franco, a famous Dutch composer. Not only did he become famous in Europe, but he was also highly respected by famous poets and writers in the Republic of China, such as Xu Zhimo and Shao Xunmei, who lived in the East. Under the impact of Western modern thought, Sanyu experimentally reinterpreted the Chinese artistic tradition and achieved an aesthetic conception that transcends culture. Nudes, flowers and animals are the three major themes in Sanyu's creation. His early works are elegant in color, smooth in lines, and the pink and white tones are filled with a pleasing romantic mood. In the 1940s, Sanyu briefly went to New York to develop his career and forged a deep friendship with the American photography master Robert Frank. After returning to Paris in the 1950s, he met Zhang Daqian, a fellow Sichuanese who came to France to hold an exhibition, and the two became close friends in their later years. With the ups and downs of life experience and the homesickness of his long-term absence, Sanyu's later works are more rich in gorgeous oriental colors. The animal works wandering in the desert are like a projection of his own image. In 1964, Sanyu was invited to teach at the National Taiwan Normal University and hold a solo exhibition. He was ready to return to the East, but for some reason he was unable to do so. The works he exhibited across the ocean were placed in the National Museum of History, Taipei, and have become one of Sanyu’s most important museum collections. Other important institutions that have collected Sanyu’s works include the Cernuschi Museum, Paris, and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. In 1966, this wanderer died unexpectedly in his Parisian apartment due to a gas leak, marking the end of his legendary life. Today, Sanyu is recognized as a master of modern Chinese art. In 2005, the Guimet Museum of Asian Art in Paris held a large retrospective for Sanyu, which further confirmed his international status as an important member of the School of Paris. In 2014, Chang Yu's "Gathering Fortune and Fragrance" was sold for more than 80 million Hong Kong dollars at Sotheby's Spring Evening Sale in Hong Kong, and another painting "Leopard" was sold for nearly 80 million at Sotheby's Autumn Evening Sale in 2017. This shows that Chang Yu's artistic concept is widely recognized by collectors and has become an important chapter in Chinese modernism. 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