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18 novembre 2018

Yan Pei-Ming (Chinese, born 1960), Mitreya Buddha, 2003

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Lot 15. Yan Pei-Ming (Chinese, born 1960), Mitreya Buddha, 2003, signed in English and Chinese, titled and dated janvier 2003 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm (70 7/8 x 78 3/4 in). Estimate HK$ 400,000 - 600,000(€ 45,000 - 68,000). © Bonhams.

Provenance: Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2003.

'Note: 'The figure of Buddha is also omnipresent in my work. I was born in a temple in Shanghai. My mother is very devout, and therefore from my earliest childhood, I was really involved with Buddhism... In general, all of my paintings of Buddha come from sculptures – because I am very interested in the volume of the real object, and the play of light and shadow that participates in the mystery of representation

The artist in: Ariane Coulondre and Emmanuelle Ollier, 'In the Worlds of the Artist', Interview with Yan Pei-Ming, 2012

Yan Pei-Ming's Mitreya Buddha from 2003 is a majestic and elegant painting belonging to one of the artist's most sought after series. Executed with confident and quick brushstrokes and with a restricted palette of reds and whites, the figure of Buddha is presented here, as in most of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings, against a monochrome background rendering the figure as the unequivocal core of the composition. 

Yan Pei-Ming is a master of portraiture, his practice combines Chinese visual tradition with a Western approach resulting in a distinctive style. The artist favours large canvases, reminiscent perhaps of the large-scale propaganda images that dominated the landscape of of China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution whilst he was a child. But also because the artist upon his arrival in France, at the age of 20, was very much impressed by the large paintings he saw in the Louvre and their power. 

Yan Pei-Ming never makes sketches, he paints directly onto canvas with a performative approach and therefore his portraits are never static. This is particularly visible in Mitreya Buddha through the artist's large and gestural brushstrokes, by the paint dripping and by the movement of Buddha's right hand; this is a revitalised and dynamic image of Buddha. 

The use of red in this painting makes it extremely powerful and it is, at the same time, a reminder of the political environment during the artist's upbringing as well as evocative of vitality and purity in Chinese tradition. 

Yan Pei-Ming's works are held in major institutions including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Shanghai Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi and The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra amongst many others. 

Mitreya Buddha from 2003 is a timeless portrait by one of the most prominent Chinese-French contemporary artists.

Bonhams. Modern and Contempory Art, Hong Kong, 26 Nov 2018.

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