S otheby’s is pleased to present a selling exhibition of select works directly from the estate of the renowned Chinese artist C. C. Wang (Wang Chi-ch’ien, 1907-2003). A classically trained ink artist, C. C. Wang's career spanned seven decades, bringing him from Republican era Shanghai to postwar New York, where he was celebrated as a connoisseur, collector and taste-maker. As an artist, C. C. Wang sought not only to preserve the practice and technique of the Chinese masters, but also to engage with the new artistic ideas and forms of Abstract Expressionism. Inspired by the intensity of imagery and color of this new artistic movement which emerged in the aftermath of World War II, he experimented with some of those transformative ideas by incorporating a new vibrancy of color and emotion in his own work.
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Sotheby's New York
1334 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
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Sunday 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
For enquiries, please contact the Chinese Works of Art department
Chinese.NewYork@Sothebys.com
+1 212 606 7332
