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Li Yuan-chia
China, 1929-94

Born in 1929 in Guanxi province, Li Yuan-chia was
among a group of Kuomintang refugees who arrived
in Taiwan in 1949. A student of Li Chung-sheng
(known as the father of abstract art in Taiwan) Li was a member of the Ton Fan group (東方畫會) during the late 1950s. Some of the earliest examples of abstract painting, these works demonstrate how Li Yuan-chia pioneered combinations of Chinese pictorial and philosophical traditions with Western abstract painting. Freely taking leave from Kandinsky, Laozi, calligraphy, and ancient art alike, Li cast off realist depictions to pursue renderings of beauty in its purity and simplicity.

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Li Yuan-chia
Untitled, 1958-59
37.5 x 26.5 cm
Ink and oil on paper


Li Yuan-chia
Untitled, 1958-59
27.5 x 39.5 cm
Ink and oil on paper


Li Yuan-chia
Untitled, 1958-59
28 x 40 cm
Ink on paper


Li Yuan-chia
Untitled, 1958-59
27 x 39 cm
Ink on paper


Li Yuan-chia
Untitled, 1958-59
28 x 40 cm
Ink on paper