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Friday, May 19, 2017

Yun Gee in 20th Century Chinese Art, 2014

Sotheby’s, Hong Kong
April 6, 2014






















CATALOG
Yun Gee, cover art and pages 90 to 99
Photograph of Yun Gee painting (1926)
Self-Portrait (1927; aka Head of Man in Cap)
“A Pioneering Chinese Artist Who Emerged from San Francisco’s Art Scene”
by Professor Anthony Lee
Essay illustrated with self-portraits of Rembrandt (1629), Van Gogh (1887); Xu Beihong (1922); and Pan Yuliang (1940); two pages from Who’s Who in China (1932)
“Off to the New World: Chinese Artists in North America”
Artwork by Hon-Chew Hee, Chao Chung-Hsiang, Chuang Che, Tony Wong, Ming Fay, and Walasse Ting


 Sotheby’s, Hong Kong
October 6, 2014

CATALOG
Yun Gee, pages 52 to 61
Man Holding Baby (1926)
Park in Spring (no date)
Artist’s Handmade Album (1926; photographs of Gee and hand-drawn maps)






















15 Contact Prints (1927; 12 paintings and 3 with people)






















Portrait of Otis Oldfield (1926)
Otis Oldfield, Notes of a Promenade with Yun Gee: Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento; Stevenson House, Monterey; Yosemite Trees (1926)

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Friday, May 12, 2017

Yun Gee in 20th Century Chinese Art, 2009

Sotheby’s, Hong Kong
April 6, 2009

CATALOG
Yun Gee on pages 24 to 26
The Last Supper (circa 1930s)


















four studies (1933; one, two, three, four)
Photograph and biography of Yun Gee


 Christie’s, Hong Kong
November 29, 2009

CATALOG
page 4: detail of The Last Supper panel one






















Yun Gee on pages 54 to 61
pages 54–55: The Last Supper (1933; in the gatefold: panels one, two and three)
page 55: My Conception of Christ (1926; reference only); photograph of Gee with The Last Supper mural; and detail of Leonardo de Vinci’s The Last Supper
pages 56–57: Three Graces (1939)
pages 58–59: Madame Murat Sculpting Statue (1937; aka Yvonne Serruys Sculpting Statue)
pages 60–61: Nude with Pearl Necklace (no date in catalog)


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Friday, March 31, 2017

Helen’s World of Yun Gee

Sotheby’s, Taipei
October 17, 1999























CONTENTS
Preface (in Chinese and English) pages 8–11
Introduction (in Chinese and English) by Helen Gee with photographs, pages 12–40
Helen’s World of Yun Gee (39 lots), pages 43–93

Dragon (1934; ink and watercolor on paper)
Nudes on Horseback (1939; ink and watercolor on paper)
Harmony (1939; ink and watercolor on paper)
Buddha (circa 1929; ink on paper)
Paradise (between 1937 and 1939; ink on paper)
Landscape with Fisherman and Ox (circa 1930; ink and watercolor on paper)
Nude at Window (between 1937 and 1939; ink and watercolor on paper)
Nudes and Horse (between 1937 and 1939; ink and watercolor on paper)
Cowboy (1926; oil on canvas)
Girl on Bridge (1926; oil on board)
Telegraph Hill (1926; oil on board)
California Landscape (1926; oil on board)
Portrait of Gottardo Piazzoni (1927; oil on board)
Musician with the Er-hu (1927; oil on canvas)
The Flute Player (Self Portrait; 1928; oil on canvas)
Meditation (Portrait of Helen; 1935; oil on silk mounted on board)
Seated Nude (1926; oil on board)
Pantheon and Workmen (1927; oil on board)
San Francisco Street Scene (1926; oil on paper mounted on canvas)
Rooftops (1926; oil on canvas)
San Francisco Chinatown (1927; oil on canvas)
Lower Manhattan (circa 1931; oil on wood panel)
Paule Painting (Princess Paule de Reuss; 1929; oil on board)
From My Studio Window (1928; oil on wood panel)
Notre Dame (1928; oil on canvas)
Victor Hugo’s House (1928; oil on canvas)
Helen at Sixteen (1936; oil on silk mounted on board)
Portrait of Dorr Bothwell (1926; oil on canvas)
Model with Cigarette (circa 1933; oil on silk mounted on board)
Couple Walking (1932; wood sculpture)
Resurrection (1930; ink on paper)
Landscape with Pine Tree (circa 1932; ink on paper)
Landscape (circa 1932; ink and watercolor on paper)
Cafe (1930; pencil on paper)
Strolling the Mynah (between 1937 and 1939; ink and watercolor on paper)
Two Nudes (between 1937 and 1939; ink and watercolor on paper)
Nude in Armchair (between 1937 and 1939; ink and watercolor on paper)
After the Bath (circa 1932; ink and watercolor on paper)
Snorting Dragon (1932; ink and watercolor on paper) 


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Friday, February 17, 2017

Yun Gee in Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture, 1994

Sotheby’s, Taipei
April 10, 1994
Zhu Yuanzhi (Mandarin)
Life and Death (1928)























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