April 17, 2024
Floral Bird Painting Hong Kong Chinese Artist CK Chan
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Up for sale is this large floral painting by the artist CK Chan. The painting is a large painting 36 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. The painting is already framed. CK Chans biography is below. I can ship this painting internationally please ask me for a shipping quote as the price that i am inputting is incorrect. Chan (C.K.) Chit King� (陳哲敬) was born on November 19, 1927 in Fujian Province, China.� He moved to Shanghai in his youth and was trained by master Zhang Chongren ( 張充仁 )� in painting, sculpting and calligraphy.� In the 1950's, C.K. moved to Hong Kong.� There he was contracted by the Movieland Wax Museum of Los Angeles, California to construct models of famous movie stars of the time including John Wayne, Nancy Kwan and Humphrey Bogart.� It was there that his artistic appreciation of Chinese paintings and Buddhist sculptures began.� In the 1960's C.K. moved to San Francisco, then to New York City where his interest in Buddhist sculptures continued to grow.� He visited major museums in North America, Europe and Japan where he saw for the first time the grandeur of Chinese Buddhist arts.� � In the following decades, he painstakingly searched the corners of the globe and compiled his own private sculpture collection .� In New York, his Chinese Gallery of Art on Madison Avenue and East 71st Street displayed his collection while
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