Leng Hong: Oil On Canvas Signed

Large oil on canvas by contemporary artist Leng Hong. Signed lower left, countersigned and dated on the back, it is presented in a "half round" ebony-colored wooden frame.
The dimensions of the canvas alone 150 centimeters x 110 centimeters
With frame: 172 x 128 centimeters

Biography

LENG Hong, born in Shanghai in 1955, is a Chinese artist. He studied at the Fine Arts School of the Shanghai Theater Academy in the 70s, first as a painter and teacher, he left for France in the 80s, became interested in Western painting and found another style. He immersed himself in the schools of painting of the 20th century and earlier Western schools, including that of the Italian Renaissance which conquered him. Leng Hong is still a professor at the College of Fine Arts of the University of Shanghai.
Leng Hong has developed a style that transcends time and place. The artist adds the serenity so well transmitted by classical Chinese art. The outlines of buildings, or objects, but also characters, seem to be cut through the impasto of various layers of paint, can be seen as blurred drawings, deliberately represented from different angles, according to the same techniques used by Picasso in his cubist portraits.

For his oils, Leng Hong mixes techniques and adds a marble powder that illuminates his colors sometimes with red-brown, sometimes with blue-green and often in very large formats. In his watercolors, Leng Hong takes up a technique dating back to the 5th century, of monochrome washes, in which the gradations of intensity of the ink make it possible to obtain a multiplicity of effects, while purifying and simplifying the color.

Leng Hong exhibits throughout the world both solo and in groups, notably in Canada where he has lived for about twenty years. (And there, he also paints the Saint-Laurent River that flows under his window and invades with mists his "villages of another era" when it comes to watercolors.)
At the Museum of Fine Arts of Bordeaux, the Museum of Pau, the Château d'Issan, in France, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, the Shanghai Art Museum, his exhibitions follow one another and are not alike. His works are part of the collections of the Hangzhou Museum, Suzhou Museum, Liu Haisu Art Museum, in Shanghai. His works illustrate the first covers of books published by major houses and have been presented several times during French-speaking and Chinese TV shows. Leng Hong regularly appears in the portfolios of auction houses such as Sotheby's in Taipei, Arcurial in Shanghai. Again in 2019 and for 20 years, Leng Hong sees his works appearing in prestigious exhibitions in China.