Tchao Yen-Nien (aka Zhao Yannian; 赵延年; Yen-nien Chao; Dshau Jän-njän) (1924–2014)—an influential printmaker in China for his “innovative
use of cutting and printing techniques” (see https://chineseposters.net/artists/zhaoyannian)
“La Course
Contre le Temps” (The Race Against Time), c.1954, an original woodcut in two
colours published in Peking (now Beijing) in 1956 by Éditions en Langues
Étrangères (Foreign Languages Press) (fl.1952–) as plate 37 to the folio of
40 original woodcuts printed in the People’s Republic of China, “Gravures sur
Bois de la Chine Nouvelle.” Note that this print was featured in the second
National Exhibition of Fine Arts (China) in 1955 and was chosen from this
exhibition for its inclusion in the 1956 folio of prints representing the achievements
of “la Chine Nouvelle” (the new China).
Woodcut in two colours
(olive and brown-black) printed on fine cream wove paper (China) with full
margins and printed title as published.
Size: (sheet)
34.8 x 25 cm; (image borderline) 25.2 x 17.1 cm.
Dated
vertically in plate at lower left, “1954 […]”.
Lettered below
the image: (centre) “37. La course contre le temps Tchao Yen-nien”.
Condition: a
strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression in a pristine condition.
I am selling
this superb two-colour woodcut designed to showcase the industrial advances in
China in the mid-1950s—mindful that the artist belonged to the “All China
Association of Anti-Enemy Woodcut Artists” and the folio in which this print
features was published by a press that was later “owned and controlled by the
Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Languages_Press)—for
AU$174 in total (currently US $113.71/EUR 106.29/GBP 91.01 at the time of this
listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the
world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are
interested in purchasing this powerful image of industry in the erection of a tower
block that has (at least to my eyes) resonance with similar images of
construction by the almost legendary, Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)—see, for
example, “Building the Victoria and Albert Museum”, 1904 (https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/43387/),
please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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