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架起東西文化之橋梁

專注於印象派及現代藝術大師的漢馬畫廊總部設在紐約。畫廊還展出當代藝術家的作品比如中國藝術家陳逸飛先生的作品 。漢馬畫廊參與世界上最負盛名的藝術博覽會: 在荷蘭馬斯特裡赫特的歐洲藝術博覽會和邁阿密巴塞爾藝術博覽會。

畫廊的創始人是實業家和慈善家愛滿•漢馬博士（1898–1990)，他是西方石油公司的董事長。他以“國民外交”著名周遊世界結交有影響力的世界各國領導人，畢生追求世界和平。在上世紀20年代，當新成立的蘇聯處於財政窘困，當時才23歲的漢馬認識了列寧並成功地在俄羅斯發展多項企業，並開始與他的兄弟維克托一起收集沙皇的藝術。這是成立於1928年漢馬畫廊和漢馬傳奇的個人藝術收藏的起源。

漢馬畫廊與中國的關係始於1979年。在一次得克薩斯州休斯敦的晚宴上，漢馬博士結識了當時中國副主席鄧小平 。鄧副主席認出了他說：“你不用介紹你自己......我們都知道你在中國，你是那位於1921年去俄羅斯，幫助列寧，幫助當時陷入困境的俄羅斯人，現在你得來中國。”漢馬被授予了前所未有的特權將他的私人727噴氣機降落在中國，還被邀請入住釣魚台國賓館。國賓館是歷來皇帝休閒的地方。尼克松和里根總統對中國進行歷史性訪問時均住在那裡。當時漢馬由他的孫子漢邁高陪伴，漢邁高是那時最年輕的西方石油公司的高管團隊成員之一，目前是漢馬畫廊的主席。第一次訪華期間， 漢馬博士同中方新的合作伙伴交涉了重要的西方石油公司和中國的關於石油和煤炭的協議。

1982年從漢馬的個人收藏中最精彩的的倫勃朗，魯本斯，莫奈，雷諾阿，塞尚，梵高等名作在北京的中國美術館展出。這一裡程碑式的展覽為中國觀眾提供了觀賞西方經典原作的

第一次機會。漢馬後來還為1984年在洛杉磯奧運會贊助中國大熊貓第一次走出國門。

為香港巴塞爾藝術博覽會，我們特別榮幸為大家帶來了中國藝術家陳逸飛（ 1946–2005 ）的四幅作品。 1980年，陳先生成為了他這一代的第一位藝術家前往美國。他在1981年被漢馬發現後，1983年，陳先生在漢馬畫廊舉辦了他的第一個美國個展 ，巧合的是，也是在同一年， 漢馬畫廊總監邵霍華先生開始了他在漢馬畫廊的職業生涯。邵先生同陳先生為隨後的所有展覽進行了密切的合作, 每次展覽都一售而空 。 1985年，漢馬向鄧小平捐贈了陳逸飛的《記憶- 雙橋》。近年來，漢馬畫廊開始買回陳逸飛的早期作品，並將其出售給亞洲的收藏家，陳先生的畫作也不斷在拍賣會上創下新的記錄。

陳先生受過中國和西方的傳統教育，他的老師也是中國最後一代上世紀20年代在巴黎學習的中國畫家 。陳先生最喜歡的符號是橋樑，傳統上代表了人與自然的結合以及東西方的融合。陳先生的夢幻主題是水道，運河，街道和著名的東方威尼斯的蘇州和其上千年的蘇州老橋 。陳先生的藝術似無言的詩歌，其最突出的特點是其“沉默和寂靜 ”的氣氛。

在漢馬先生的晚年，有三幅畫掛在他西方石油公司的辦公室裡：一幅是古典大師彼得·保羅·魯本斯的作品，一幅是陳逸飛，另一幅是黃冑的作品（這是鄧小平送的禮物，此幅作品去年剛剛回歸中國）。

我們很榮幸能夠參展香港巴塞爾藝術博覽會，為大家呈現印象派和現代大師的作品以及一個陳逸飛先生的特展，此次活動延承了漢馬先生持續文化交流之傳統。

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1. 在北京人民大會堂，鄧小平副主席在一私會前接待漢馬博士2. 愛滿•漢馬博士同他的孫子漢邁高，現紐約漢馬畫廊主席兼首席執

行官3. 1990年陳逸飛同邵霍華合影，邵霍華現為漢馬畫廊總裁和董事4. 愛滿•漢馬博士，陳逸飛和前外交部長吴學謙1983年在漢馬畫廊陳

逸飛的畫展中5. 鄧小平副主席和愛滿•漢馬博士1984年月在北京人民大會堂6. 在漢馬畫廊，陳逸飛給鄧小平介紹《我的家鄉的回憶》展覽7. 漢馬博士和文化部副部長司徒慧敏1982年為愛滿•漢馬在北京中

國美術館的收藏展剪彩 1, 5 & 7 號照片由約翰•柏松攝影，載自《愛滿•漢馬的世界》

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架起東西文化之橋梁

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Hammer Galleries, headquartered in New York, focuses on Impres-sionist and Modern Masters. The gallery also exhibits contempo-raries such as Chinese artist Yifei Chen. Hammer participates in the world’s most prestigious art fairs, The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, Holland and Art Basel Miami Beach.

The gallery’s founder, industrialist and philanthropist Dr. Armand Hammer (1898–1990), was Chairman of Occidental Petroleum. Known for his “citizen diplomacy,” he travelled the world, befriending world leaders in his lifelong quest for world peace. During the 1920’s when the newly formed Soviet Union was in dire financial straits, the then 23-year-old Hammer met Lenin and developed several successful ventures in Russia, and began col-lecting Czarist art with his brother Viktor. This was the origin of both the Hammer Galleries (established in 1928) and Hammer’s legendary personal art collection.

The relationship of Hammer Galleries and China began in 1979 when Dr. Hammer met Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping at a dinner in Houston, Texas. Deng recognized him, saying “you don’t have to introduce yourself. . . . We all know you in China. You’re the man who went to Russia in 1921 to help Lenin when Russia was in trouble. Now you’ve got to come to China.” Hammer was granted the unprecedented privilege to land his private 727 jet in China and was invited to stay at the Diao-Yu-tai State Guesthouse, an ancient retreat of the Emperors where Presidents Nixon and Reagan stayed during historic visits to China. He was accompanied by his grand-son Michael Hammer, then the youngest Occidental Petroleum executive on the team and currently Chairman of Hammer Galleries. During that first visit, Dr. Hammer negotiated major business deals for oil and coal between Occidental Petroleum and his new Chinese partners.

In 1982 the finest pieces from Hammer’s personal collection, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, etc., were loaned to the National Art Museum

of China in Beijing. This landmark exhibition provided the first opportunity for original Western masterpieces to be viewed in China. Hammer later sponsored the first travel of Chinese pandas out of the country, in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

For Art Basel Hong Kong, we are especially pleased to present four paintings by Chinese artist Yifei Chen (1946–2005). In 1980, Chen became the first artist of his generation to travel to America. Discovered by Armand Hammer in 1981, Chen had his first U.S. exhibition at Hammer Galleries in 1983. Coincidentally, this was the same year that Howard Shaw, Hammer Galleries’ Director, began his career at Hammer Galleries. Mr. Shaw worked closely with Chen on all of the “sell out” exhibitions which followed. In 1985, Armand Hammer presented Chen’s painting Memory of Homeland–Double Bridge to Deng Xiaoping. In recent years, Hammer Galleries has reacquired paintings by Yifei Chen and sold them to collectors in Asia, and his paintings continue to set new records at auction.

Chen, educated in both Chinese and Western traditions, was taught by the last generation of Chinese painters to have studied in 1920s Paris. Chen’s favorite symbol, the bridge, traditionally rep-resents the union of man and nature, as well as the meeting of East and West. Chen’s dreamy subjects, the waterways, canals, streets, and the 1000 year old bridges from Suzhou, the “Venice of the East,” recall ancient China. Chen’s art suggests a type of poetry without words whose most striking character is its atmosphere of “silence and stillness.”

For the last years of his life Armand Hammer had three paint-ings in his office at Occidental Petroleum—one by the Old Master Peter Paul Rubens, one by Yifei Chen and one by Huang Zhou (a gift from Deng Xiaoping and just last year returned to China).

We are honored to exhibit at Art Basel Hong Kong, presenting an array of works by Impressionist and Modern Masters as well as a special exhibition of paintings by Yifei Chen, continuing the Hammer tradition of cultural exchange.

Bridging East and West

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1. In Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping greets Dr. Hammer before a private meeting

2. Dr. Armand Hammer with his grandson, Michael Armand Hammer, now Chairman and CEO of Hammer Galleries, New York

3. Yifei Chen with Howard Shaw, now President and Director of Hammer Galleries, New York (1990)

4. Dr. Armand Hammer, Yifei Chen and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Wu Xueqian, at Hammer Galleries’ Yifei Chen exhibition 1983

5. Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping and Dr. Armand Hammer at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, April 1984

6. Yifei Chen presenting his work to Deng Xiaoping from Memories of My Homeland exhibit at Hammer Galleries

7. Dr. Hammer and the Vice minister of Culture, Mr. Situ Huimin, cut the rib-bons to open the exhibition of The Armand Hammer Collection at the China National Art Museum in Beijing 1982

Photos no. 1, 5 and 7 by John Bryson from The World of Armand Hammer

Yifei Chen (chinese, 1946–2005)

Early Morning, Suzhou, 1983 Oil on canvas 36 x 40 inches (91.4 x 101.6 cm) Signed lower right: Chen Yifei 83

陳逸飛 （中國，1946–2005）

《早晨 ，蘇州》， 1983油彩畫布

36 x 40 英寸 (91.4 x 101.6 公分)

簽名右下並紀年83

Yifei Chen (chinese, 1946–2005)

Garden Courtyard, Suzhou, 1983 Oil on canvas 30 x 42 inches (76.2 x 106.7 cm) Signed lower right: Chen Yifei 83

陳逸飛 （中國，1946–2005）

《花園 ，蘇州》， 1983油彩畫布

30 x 42 英寸 (76.2 x 106.7 公分)

簽名右下並紀年83

Yifei Chen (chinese, 1946–2005)

End of the Canal, Venice, 1990 Oil on canvas 24¼ x 34 inches (61.6 x 86.4 cm)Signed lower right: Chen Yifei

陳逸飛 （中國，1946–2005）

《運河的盡頭 ，威尼斯》， 1990油彩畫布

24¼ x 34 英寸 (61.6 x 86.4 公分)

簽右下名

Yifei Chen (chinese, 1946–2005)

Bridge Reflection (Suzhou), 1987 Oil on canvas 34 x 42 inches (86.4 x 106.7 cm) Signed lower left: Chen Yifei 87

陳逸飛 （中國，1946–2005）

《橋影，蘇州》， 1987油彩畫布

34 x 42 英寸 (86.4 x 106.7 公分)

簽名左下並紀年87