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Gianguan Auctions June Sale Offers Many Facets of Chinese Art
Released: June 19, 2013With a slate of more than 300 items going off in two sessions on June 30th, Gianguan Auction’s Summer Sale marks the first time Internet bidders will be able to place bids direct through the Gianguan Auctions website. Two unusual Fu and Shou character-from sancai ceramic ewers of the Qing Dynasty typify the cultural rarities that highlight the Fine Chinese Paintings and Works of Art Auction. Tagged Lots 224 and 225, the unusual wine pots are of flattened form embellished with floral patterns and geometrics surrounding a center medallion depicting sages. Modestly estimated, the ewers are...
China Cultural Department Opens Public Museum Celebrating NYC Artist Kwong Lum
Released: February 4, 2013The first Chinese government funded museum to honor a living Chinese American artist celebrates the contemporary art of New York based artist Kwong Lum. Located in in the Cultural Department of Xinhui in the city of Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, the Kwong Lum Museum will feature the artist’s work and the Sai Yang Tang Collection of antiquities. It will also serve as a center for Sino-foreign cultural activities and as a research base on antiquities from the Xinhui district. The 592,015 square foot museum designed by Zhang Yu Pearl River International Architects is set to open on A...
Gianguan Auctions Holiday Season Sale Has Affordable and Extraordinary Chinese Items
Released: November 22, 2012Gianguan Auctions Holiday Season sale on Sunday December 9 is geared toward buyers looking for good buys at reasonable prices as well as collectors in the market for iconic paintings by internationally renowned Chinese artists Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and others. Among the exemplary paintings is Qi Baishi's color ink-on-paper of "Massive Peaches," (Lot 17.) In contrasting strong bush strokes with a detailed image of a tiny dragonfly, the master is at his best. He moves in another direction with "Ducks in a Lotus-Pond," (Lot 69) where the bold monochromatic strokes produce a pair su...
September Asia Week Events At-A-Glance on Asia Week Guide.com
Released: September 9, 2012New York City. With New York's Fall Asia Week kicking off on Sunday, September 9 and running through Friday, September 14, collectors and visitors will find the complete schedule of Asian art auctions, exhibitions and events on AsiaWeekGuide.com. AsiaWeekGuide.com is the independent, inclusionary one-stop resource to the week's myriad events. A daily calendar can be found on the Events page of AsiaWeekGuide.com. Articles on the art and design of Asia, museum exhibitions and items of interest are on the homepage. Suggested activities include trips to the New York C...
Gianguan Auctions Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Fall Asia Week Sale September 9
Released: August 24, 2012Gianguan Auctions of New York City celebrates its tenth anniversary on September 9 with a sale of Fine Chinese Paintings, Ceramics, Bronzes and Works of Arts. Painting highlights include Lot 24, Jiang Tingi's Qing Dynasty work, "Mandarin Duck in Lotus Pond." With two ducks below, a bird above the lotus blossoms and a poem in the upper right, the inscribed ink and color on paper is an excellent example of the romanticism and balance inherent in fine Chinese paintings. Interestingly, the artist is known as more than a painter or scholar. He was also editor of the Gujin Tushu Jinchen...
Kwong Lum Advises Collectors on "Period of Adjustment in Chinese Art"
Released: May 25, 2012As Gianguan Auctions prepares for its June 10 sale, Kwong Lum, President of Gianguan Auctions, advises collectors on how to manage the changing dynamic in the Chinese art market. "This period of adjustment," he states, "should be viewed as an opportune time to buy." The advice is reflected in the realistic estimates and reliable cataloging of the fine Chinese Paintings, Ceramics, Bronzes and Works of Art in the upcoming sale. Gianguan opens its morning session with more than seventy traditional and contemporary paintings by renowned Chinese artists, whose works are in the $4,000 - $25,...
Chinese Ceramics & Archaic Bronzes Highlight Gianguan Auctions Asia Week Sale
Released: March 9, 2012Chinese ceramics take center stage at the afternoon session of Gianguan Auctions' Asia Week sale on Sunday, March 18. Highlighting the proceedings is a seldom-seen Yuan Dynasty octagonal blue and white Meipng portraying six legendary Chinese figures. According to Kwong Lum, proprietor of Gianguan Auctions, the Meiping represents the exceptional artistic attainmnet of Yuan Dynasty porcelain making. Its workmanship is comparable to that of an octagonal blue-and-white Meiping with a dragon-amid-billow design unearthed in Hebei Province in 1964 and collected by China's Hebei Provincial Museu...
Eight-six Chinese Paintings Open Gianguan Auctions March 18 Sale
Released: March 8, 2012Gianguan Auctions, New York's premier resident Asian art auction house, is pleased to announce that its Asia Week Sale on Sunday, March 18, will open with a morning session of eighty-six Chinese paintings. Included are four by Zhang Daqian and six by Qi Baishi. Previews begin on Saturday, March 10 and continue through Saturday, March 17. Both Zhang Daqian (1899 - 1983) and Qi Baishi (1864 -1957) made headlines in 2011 for breaking the auction records of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Kwong Lum, proprietor of Gianguan Auctions, said the collection of Chinese scroll painti...
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