To coincide with the second edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong this year, de Sarthe Gallery is holding “Pioneers of Modern Chinese Painting in Paris,” an extensive survey of the work of ten Chinese émigré artists for whom Paris loomed large in the global artistic imagination in the early and mid-20th century, from 1919 onward.
Some of the most well-known figures who arrived in Paris in the 1920s include Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, and Sanyu, while a subsequent generation who found themselves drawn to the French capital in the immediate postwar years counted Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-Ki, and Chu Teh-Chun among their most prominent representatives.
Pascal de Sarthe, owner of de Sarthe Gallery, took the time to speak with BLOUIN ARTINFO about the unique motivations that prompted successive waves of pioneering modern Chinese artists to move to Paris and the inspiring cultural climate that they encountered there.
To read the full interview, please click here.