My absolute best find ever  

For those not...
familiar with Chu Teh Chun. He is a French painter from Chinese origin. Born 85 years ago in Baitou Zhen (province of Jiangsu. He started his formal education in calligraphy before going to the National College of Art for an education in painting and water colors. He was obviously good because he became an instructor at the college upon completing his own degree. In 1949 he moved (fled)to Taiwan better known at the time as Formosa, and was part of the mainland chinese minority on the island untill he moved to France in 1955 or so. He became a French national in 1980 and is a member of the Institut de France and Academie des Beaux Arts. Although his paintings show a strong chinese tradition and his background in calligraphy, he paints in the lyric abstract tradition. He is certainly one of the prominent contemporary chinese painters in that tradition....so where exactly is that store???

Chu Teh-Chun
I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you. This posting was supposed to go into the " best finds" thread but this was my first post and I made a mistake. That SAME store, in the last year has yielded me: a early Eames rope edge chair,a Robsjohn Gibbings dresser, a Heywood Wakefield trophy suite dresser, a nessen swing lamp, a royal chrome desk, a Nino Franchina artist proof litho, a Shaw Walker deco swivel chair, a Kevi chair, a Gio Ponti tall ladder back artisan chair, a number of raymor pieces and too much to list here. The astonishing part is that I paid no more than about $200 for all of the above and that INCLUDES the Chu Teh-Chun painting. There is at least THIS upside to living in a oft scorned mid-western city; the general demographic is not as keen on or understanding of these items as is the case in larger cities whose populations are more sophisticated. The bottom line is less competition for those of my ilk ( affliction ).
If you wish, send me your e-mail and I will send you some images of the painting. Even in 1962, Zhu Dequn ( Chu Teh-Chun) had fully developed his abstractionis/expressionist style. The more I look at it, the more painful it will be to let it go.I feel like Qwasimoto(sic), a lover of beautiful things, yet with many limitations to indulge that passion. Usually money - in my case. Who wouldn't have a seven figure home filled will all the best the eye could yearn for, if money was no object?

I wasn't familiar with him,...
I wasn't familiar with him, but his work is very beautiful and quite dramatic!
Awesome find!

Hmmm
I wonder how much the painting sold for....

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...any images....I'd love to see it!
in 40 years of doing what I do best sorting 'shit from clay' and the best I've done is a 10k profit....but it's the love of it (collecting) that keeps me going.
Very well done!

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.....damn!! a 6 year old post!