Medium: Oil on Canvas Age: Circa 1950's Painting Size: 24" x 20" Artist: Si Yuan (1911 - 1974) Frame Size: 29 1/2" x 25 1/2" Signature: Lower Left CornerCondition: Great Condition Frame: Well Matched FrameSubject: Still Life Style: ModernistYou are bidding on a beautiful modernist oil painting "Still Life", this piece was created by the listed Chinese/California artist Si Yuan (1911 - 1974), in circa 1950's, its oil painting on canvas, in great overall condition for its age, signed lower left, details please see photos below, comes with well matched frame.Si Yuan (1911 - 1974)S.C. Yuan, is considered one of the finest painters to come out of the Monterey Peninsula. A "painter's painter", he did work which was favored by contemporary painters who marvel at his effortless technique. "Yuan's strength as an artist was his ability to communicate a wealth of visual information with swift and concise markings," says Kathleen Moodie, Curator at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. "Yuan fused an Eastern elegance of economic line with the robust energy of Western abstraction," she added in the catalogue for an upcoming show of Yuan's works.Yuan said that "Color is like pouring Tabasco sauce over one's dinner. Color ruins painting." A friend explained how Yuan tamed colors: "After he finished a painting, he would scoop the remainder of the wet paint off the palette into a quart jar. This was the gold, precious stuff. He would start his new paintings from this jar of old paint. "Turp" was added to the mixture from time to time." Some tabasco!Yuan was a Western-style painter who happened to grow up in China and made an important contribution to the art of Carmel. As he becomes better known, much will be made, unnecessarily, about his Eastern origin. He squinted, didn't clean his brushes too well, and used paint sludge to produce a subdued palette that reflected the moodiness of his heart.

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