LIU KUO-SUNG (b.1932) Autumn Landscape, 1965LIU KUO-SUNG (b.1932)Autumn Landscape, 1965Ink on paper, signature and seal of the artist, framed. 92.3cm long x 59.8cm wide (36 1/3in long x 23 1/2in wide).劉國松（1932年生） 秋景 水墨紙本 鏡框 1965年作Born in Bangbu, Anhui Province, in 1932, Liu Kuo-sung (also Liu Guosong) is sometimes known as the 'Father of Modern Chinese Ink Painting'. He is recognised as one of the earliest and most important advocates and practitioners of modernist Chinese art. He moved to Taiwan in 1949. In 1956, Liu graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the National Taiwan Normal University, where he studied both traditional brush-and-ink and Western-style painting techniques. As one of the co-founders of Taiwan's Fifth Moon Painting Society (Wuyue huahui 五月畫會) in 1957, Liu Kuo-sung sought a new approach to art, which was inspired by both traditional Chinese painting especially the style of the late Tang period (618-907) and the monumental landscape painting style of the 10th to 11th centuries - as well as modern styles and techniques, such as abstract expressionism. Before turning to ink painting in 1961, Liu experimented with abstract oils. By the mid-1960s, Liu had gradually developed his own personal pictorial formulae, in which he combines ink painting with collage and applies ink and colour on special paper. The present lot is an example of his fusion of landscape and abstraction and represents the mature style that has earned him a place in many prestigious international exhibitions. His works have been collected by almost seventy prestigious museums and galleries, including the Palace Museum in Beijing, the British Museum in London and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; the Chicago Art Institute; Cleveland Museum of Art, The Nelson Gallery of Art and Catkins Museum; Hong Kong Museum of Art; The City Art Gallery, Bristol; and the National Gallery of Art and Museum of History, Taipei. See Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Stanford, 2018, p.196. See also a related painting by Liu Kuo-sung, 1964, illustrated by Chu-tsing Li, Liu Kuo-Sung: The Growth of a Modern Chinese Artist, Taipei, 1969, p.35.Compare also with a similar painting by Liu Kuo-sung, 'Windswept', which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 May 2018, lot 867.