YUN GEE (Zhu Yuanzhi, 朱沅芷), 1906-1963 - Lot 236

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YUN GEE (Zhu Yuanzhi, 朱沅芷), 1906-1963 - Lot 236
YUN GEE (Zhu Yuanzhi, 朱沅芷), 1906-1963 "In the Park" 1926 Oil on panel Signed "Yun Gee" lower right, and countersigned on the back Wood frame 49 x 39 cm Born in 1906 in the Canton region, Zhu Yuanzhi, Yun Gee moved to the United States at the age of 15 to join his merchant and entrepreneur father, and quickly took up painting, joining an art residency in San Francisco in the 1920s. In 1926, along with ten other artists, he founded the Modern Gallery on Montgomery Street, enabling him to organize his first solo exhibition. To encourage Chinese artists immigrating to the United States, he also founded the Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club, where he was a teacher. The following year, he left for Paris, where he stayed twice, under the patronage of Prince and Princess Achille Murat. Works from this period were shown in a solo exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1929. He left Paris for New York the following year, then returned in 1936, frequenting the artistic sphere of the time and exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants. YunGee, who was in New York at the time, drew inspiration from works he had seen there, particularly those of the Cubist movement, the beginnings of the style he would later apply, known as "diamantism". Provenance: - Acquired in the United States by Mr. and Mrs. Michon, renowned Parisian art collectors and biologists. Bequeathed to their daughter. - Dutch private collection.
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