Sotheby will have the privilege to showcase the Chew Family Collection this March. These collections have been preserved for decades, and the calligraphy and paintings bring life to the collection that has been assembled for decades.
Joan Chew, daughter of the well known revolutionary officer General Wu Luzhen, who was in the United States to peruse his study at the California University. Then, she met Thomas Crew and got married to him who was also a fellow student at the business school. They pursued their career together and ran a number of business which was focused on exporting, importing and many others. While doing their trade in Chinese antiques in Carmel, etc. Joan, Frances and Thomas put down roots and stop at Zhang Daqian’sfavourite place: The Dolores Lodge.
Frances Chew studied at different places, and then returned back to California after her father’s death and supported her mother to manage the China Art Center, and become a mentee of Zhang Daqian. She said that Zhang Daqian had a way with way he communicated on art and life where no explanation is required on his work. She passed away in 2017.
In 1967, Zhang Daqian emigrated to the United States where he first stayed at the Carmel then at the Monterey. It was there that he met the Chew family and befriended them, at the Dolores Lodge. During this stay, there were many gifts exchange between the two families, he even gifted them his works such as Water and Sky Gazing after Rain in Splashed Color and Five Fortunes, which Zhang inscribed with wishes for the Chews’ 60th birthday.
Zhang Daqian, also known as Chang Dai-Chien was one of the well known Chinese artist s of the 20th Century. He was originally known as a traditional painter and was also widely known as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter by the 1960s. Also, regarded as a master of forgers of the century during his time.
He was born in Sichuan province to an artistic family but they were financially strugglers. At the age of 12, his first commissioned came around when a fortune teller traveller asked him to paint her a new set of cards. He also learned textile dying techniques at a very young age, and thus later went back to Shanghai and started to sell his paintings and made a successful career.
Joan Chew, daughter of the well known revolutionary officer General Wu Luzhen, who was in the United States to peruse his study at the California University. Then, she met Thomas Crew and got married to him who was also a fellow student at the business school. They pursued their career together and ran a number of business which was focused on exporting, importing and many others. While doing their trade in Chinese antiques in Carmel, etc. Joan, Frances and Thomas put down roots and stop at Zhang Daqian’sfavourite place: The Dolores Lodge.
Frances Chew studied at different places, and then returned back to California after her father’s death and supported her mother to manage the China Art Center, and become a mentee of Zhang Daqian. She said that Zhang Daqian had a way with way he communicated on art and life where no explanation is required on his work. She passed away in 2017.
In 1967, Zhang Daqian emigrated to the United States where he first stayed at the Carmel then at the Monterey. It was there that he met the Chew family and befriended them, at the Dolores Lodge. During this stay, there were many gifts exchange between the two families, he even gifted them his works such as Water and Sky Gazing after Rain in Splashed Color and Five Fortunes, which Zhang inscribed with wishes for the Chews’ 60th birthday.
Zhang Daqian, also known as Chang Dai-Chien was one of the well known Chinese artist s of the 20th Century. He was originally known as a traditional painter and was also widely known as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter by the 1960s. Also, regarded as a master of forgers of the century during his time.
He was born in Sichuan province to an artistic family but they were financially strugglers. At the age of 12, his first commissioned came around when a fortune teller traveller asked him to paint her a new set of cards. He also learned textile dying techniques at a very young age, and thus later went back to Shanghai and started to sell his paintings and made a successful career.
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