3 Paintings by Pol Mara; Caryatides, Gun and The Poet, with footnotes

POL MARA (1920-1998)

Caryatides, 1969

Oil on canvas.

114 x 114 cm

Private collection

Sold for €3,380 EUR in December 2022

A caryatid is a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.

POL MARA (1920-1998)

Gun, 1962

Oil on canvas.

146 x 114 cm

Private collection

Sold for €1,500 EUR in June 2022

POL MARA (1920-1998)

The Poet, 1967

Watercolor on paper.

110 x 73 cm

Private collection

Sold for €1,560 EUR in Dec 2022

Pol Mara (Antwerp 1920-1998) was a major guru of the new guration and Belgian Pop Art. In the 1950s, after a figurative start with surrealist connotations, Pol Mara became a widely acclaimed abstract artist. In 1955, he won the Prix Jeune Peinture Belge and a few years later participated in the foundation of the G58 group in Antwerp. His works were then aimed at making visible certain details of daily life and were once again filled with figurative details. At the beginning of 1963, Pol Mara opted for new forms of expression reminiscent of American or British art, but unlike critical and protest Pop Art, he placed the emphasis on human emotions.He practiced an art that, inspired by advertising and photographic images of consumer society, would be significant within the new guration and European Pop Art. During his lifetime he benefited from important retrospectives in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. More on Pol Mara

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03 Paintings, Luo Zhongli's Crossing the River, with footnotes

Luo Zhongli (B. 1948)

Crossing the River

Oil on paper mounted on board

54 x 39 cm. (21 1⁄4 x 15 3⁄8 in.)

Private collection

Sold for CNY 138,600 in Apr 2025

Luo Zhongli (B. 1948)

Crossing the River, c. 1997

Oil on paper mounted on board

Long Museum West Bund, China

Luo Zhongli

Crossing the River, c. 2004

Oil on Canvas

70 9/10 × 55 1/10 in | 180 × 140 cm

Private collection

Luo Zhongli

Crossing the River, c. 2007

Oil on Canvas

78 7/10 × 98 2/5 in | 200 × 250 cm

Private collection

Luo Zhongli (born in 1948) is a contemporary Chinese painter and educator. He has a deep affection for rural China and its residents, which have remained a major theme in his body of work. 

Luo Zhongli graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, specializing in oil painting. In 1998, he became the President of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, a role he held until November 2015.

In 2015, the Luo Zhongli Art Museum, also known as the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum (Huxi Campus), opened in Chongqing. The museum features a collection encompassing various stages of Luo Zhongli's artistic career. Additionally, it displays a substantial number of works by artists who graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, as well as works by recipients of the Luo Zhongli Scholarship. More on Luo Zhongli

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