Oil on canvas

72.9×91 cm 28 3/4×35 7/8 in

Signed in Chinese， dated with one drawing seal on bottom right
PROVENANCE
Private collection， Asia

This work is accompanied by Certification of Authenticity issued by the ArtistTwo art works on auction Red House and Moonlight on River are new works based on the theme of the Lijiang River. It is not hard to tell that when compositing the works， Pang Jiun creates the complications in simple structures. What he reveals are not only his own temperaments through some casual displays of paints， but also his deliberate respects to traditional Chinese literati. In Red House， he picks an open angle to depict the scenery of the Lijiang River melting into the sky by skilfully applying elegant dark and light grey colors. Two fishing boats are decorated in the middle of the water， which balance the dynamism and static objects. A red and a white flower tree separate the foreground like two palms holding the Hui-styled black-and-white architecture and the red-colored high tower underneath. Overview the whole painting， the simple and elegant features with primary and secondary distinctions are essentials for keeping the plain and the simple and keeps the viewers lingering. The second painting Moonlight on River adopts the composition structure of Ni Yunlin’s painting Both Sides of the River. Under a pool of moonlight， against the cold blue shades of the evening， an empty tree with dry branches stands on the left side of the picture and echoes with the roughly sketched mountains in the distance on the right. At the end of the wooden pier that winds up from the bottom right of the picture berth two boats， each with weak lights inside but no trace of human presence. Seeing the desolated， cold， simple and plain mood， one cannot help but chant the poem “Around the boat， night wanders with moonlights.”
Through these two works， Pang Jium has shown to us all that even though the time-honoured art form of oil painting originates from the western world， as long as the painter instils genuine feelings and ideas and deems the landscapes and plants as spiritual symbols， the oil painting can be empowered with infinite vitality and stay fresh as ever.

Price estimate:
HKD: 280,000 – 380,000
USD: 35,900 – 48,700

Auction Result:
HKD: 566,400