Wu Hufan was two important Chinese painters of the 20th century, and was called "Southern Wu and Northern Pu" along with Pu Xinhu. Wu Hufan has a very high status in the fields of landscape painting and calligraphy creation, art appreciation and collection. He is one of the leading figures of Haipai calligraphy and painting.
Wu Hufan's artistic style is unique, gongshan water, long in color, especially good at green, can get the color and ink contrast, elegant and clean and moist, can be called everyone.
Wu Hufan Web Photos
Wu Hufan initially started with the "Four Kings" and Dong Qichang, and then explored the Five Dynasties, the Two Song Dynasties, and the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Carefully observe the famous relics of the family collection of the past generations, travel all over the famous mountains and rivers, and combine the ancient masters and the creation of the teachers, so as to form a unique style of beautiful and plump, clear and bright in art, the painting style is thick and gorgeous, the silk is in the button, and the hardness of the northern painting school is integrated into the northern school of painting without revealing it. His calligraphy, which combines the "thin gold body" of Emperor Huizong of song and Zhao Tuo in one furnace, combines his own interests and has its own personality characteristics.
Wu Hufan 《 Scenery of Jiangshan "
Lu Yushao once said: "At that time, Wu Hufan's paintings had the same name as the world. He has a unique color that is beyond the reach of others. I have eight characters to comment on his paintings: the pen is not as good as ink, and the ink is not as good as color. If you also follow his path and study the color, although his method can be learned, but its elegant word context, the quiet beauty of the charm, will not be able to reach it in the end." In the selection of materials, Wu Hufan is also a very exquisite one. He was very particular about mounting and printing. Wu Hufan's attention to the details of the work is not one move and one style, but comprehensive, comprehensive and naturally emitted.
Wu Hufan《Antique Landscape Album》
After the 1980s, Wu Hufan's works repeatedly appeared in overseas auction markets in 1988, his "Plum Blossom View Four Screens" sold for HK$30,000; in 1993, "Wanmu Qifeng" sold for HK$299,000; in 1995, his elaborate work "Autumn Ridge Horizontal Cloud Map" was auctioned for 950,000 yuan; in 1997, Duo Yunxuan's collection, Wu Hufan's fine "Landscape" 12 albums, sold for 2.14 million yuan, setting the highest price in the market for Wu Hufan's works. After entering the new century, the value of his works soared, and he began to become the object of collectors' pursuit.
Wu Hufan,"Spring River Fishing Cain"
The following author analyzes the value of his works in terms of different types of subject matter.
Judging from the auction records of Wu Hufan's works in recent years, the best market is his landscape, and Wu Hufan's landscape paintings blend the past and the present, worthy of being the leader of Haipai landscape painting.
Its landscape is divided into two kinds: one is antique or ancient works, although the clouds imitate someone's brushwork, in fact, they are mostly flowing in self-transportation, and the painting style is beautiful and plump, clean and elegant. For example, Wu Hufan's 1954 "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" sold by Hanhai in Beijing in 2011 was sold for 98.9 million yuan, just one step away from 100 million yuan, setting a record for the highest auction of Wu Hufan's works so far. Wu Hufan seems to have returned to his status as an "aristocratic painter" and a "master of the painting world" in the past.
Wu Hufan《Qiushan Xiao Temple》
Coincidentally, in 2011, Jiade Autumn Auction sold Wu Hufan's 1935 "Imitation of Shen Zhou Landscape Album" was also sold for 13.8 million yuan. This volume is a copy of the work, so its pen intention is also following Shen Zhou, subtle and exquisite, almost not to the former sages, or there is a "chaotic truth" trend.
The transaction price is not the highest. However, it is worth noting that this album was only sold for 1.65 million yuan in 2005, and the price has increased by 8 times in 6 years. This is enough to see the market's affirmation of Wu Hufan's ancient landscape paintings. At the Beijing Poly auction in the same year, Wu Hufan's "Meng Xiangyang Poetry Imitation Shuming Pen Intention" also sold for 8.51 million yuan.
Wu Hufan, "A Night in the Mountains"
After 2011, paintings such as Wu Hufan began to soar, exceeding tens of millions of yuan. In 2012, his "Ancient Cave Map of Gengsang" was sold for 17.25 million yuan at the Xiling auction. It can be seen that the value of its ink paintings has also risen year after year; in the 2016 Xiling Auction Autumn Auction, Wu Hufan's "Five Bulls of G Han" was finally sold at a high price of 26.45 million yuan. Its "Antique Landscape Album" was priced at 15.525 million yuan in Beijing Poly in 2017. It shows that the potential of such subjects is huge, and from these auction data, it can also be seen that his ancient paintings are sought after by the market.