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2018 Autumn Auctions
Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art

135
Ryozo Kato (b.1964)
San Sui Kyo(Painted in 2017)

Ink and stone pigments on paper mounted on board

91 x 65.2 cm. 35 7/8 x 26 5/8 in.

Stamped with one artist’s seal on bottom left and reverse; signed and titled in Japanese on reverse
PROVENANCE
Saihodo Galleg,Tokgo
Private Collection, Asia

The Poem of Nature
Ryozo Kato's works are well known for his Chinese-style landscape painting. His accurate and meticulous brush strokes create vibrant mountainous views which connote deep philosophy and spirituality. Born in Japan, Kato is famous for landscape paintings which inherited traditional Japanese painting with a refined twist from Chinese Song and Yuan painting, depicts a silent yet strong landscape scenery with his own visual language, thus have developed various facets to traditional Chinese landscape painting.
San Sui Kyo series is the most recognized artwork of Ryoko Kato as his techniques become more mature and exquisite in this series. In this Lot San Sui Kyo that completed in 2016, the artist used refined and soft black brush to paint the structure of the mountains. With his most representative color green and yellow, Kato mixed and merged these two colours together, created layers with shifting light reflections. He used techniques that similar to traditional Chinese ink painting styles to depict mountains and trees, the green tone gives them vibrant lives with a poetic touch. The brush leaves dots and dots on paper, created nostalgic scenery with a scenery of spring rains, reflected misty natural lights, and led the audience to a mystery ambience. Kato spread a refining stone pigment on soft Japanese rice paper, produced a unique light with a foggy effect on the image. The colours mixed and reflected each other, sealed the time in a sudden moment, enhanced a poetic visionary that perfectly expressed mountain scenery within the changing seasons.

Price estimate:
HKD: 70,000 - 100,000
USD: 8,900 - 12,700

Auction Result:
HKD : --

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