Details
WESLEY TONGSON (1957-2012)
Untitled
Scroll, mounted on cardboard, ink and color on paper
15 12 x 23 38 in. (39.5 x 59.3 cm.)
Signed, with one seal of the artist
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist in Hong Kong.
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Lot Essay

An artist mostly withdrawn from the world, Wesley Tongson found consolation and joy in the pure act of painting. Throughout his career, the works he created in solitude radiate a palpable sense of energy expressed with boundless creativity, as seen through sweeping ink lines and dots against a solid black background. Tongson experimented with ways to abandon the brush altogether, often producing intensely spiritual works with only his fingers and nails. ‘I believe that artistic creation requires purity, passion, and integrity,’ he said, ‘without which no good work of art can ever be produced.’

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