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 favorite symbol, the bridge, traditionally represents the union of man and nature, as well as the meeting of East and West. Chen, educated in both Chinese and Western traditions, was taught by the last generation of Chinese painters to have studied in 1920s Paris. 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. In 1985, Armand Hammer presented Chen’s painting Memory of Homeland–Double Bridge to Deng Xiaoping.
Shaw worked closely with Chen on all of the “sell out” exhibitions which followed. Coincidentally, this was the same year that Howard Shaw, Hammer Galleries’ Director, began his career at Hammer Galleries. Discovered by Armand Hammer in 1981, Chen had his first U.S. In 1980, Chen became the first artist of his generation to travel to America. For Art Basel Hong Kong, we were especially pleased to present four paintings by Chinese artist Yifei Chen (1946–2005). Hammer later sponsored the first travel of Chinese pandas out of the country, in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. This landmark exhibition provided the first opportunity for original Western masterpieces to be viewed in China.
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. Hammer negotiated major business deals for oil and coal between Occidental Petroleum and his new Chinese partners.
He was accompanied by his grandson Michael Hammer, then the youngest Occidental Petroleum executive on the team and currently Chairman of Hammer Galleries. 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. You’re the man who went to Russia in 1921 to help Lenin when Russia was in trouble. Deng recognized him, saying “you don’t have to introduce yourself. Hammer met Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping at a dinner in Houston, Texas. The relationship of Hammer Galleries and China began in 1979 when Dr. This was the origin of both the Hammer Galleries (established in 1928) and Hammer’s legendary personal art collection. 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 collecting Czarist art with his brother Viktor. Known for his “citizen diplomacy,” he traveled the world, befriending world leaders in his lifelong quest for world peace. Armand Hammer (1898–1990), was Chairman of Occidental Petroleum. The gallery’s founder, industrialist and philanthropist Dr. Hammer participates in the world’s most prestigious art fairs: The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht and New York and Art Basel in Miami Beach and Hong Kong. The gallery also exhibits contemporaries such as Chinese artist Yifei Chen. Hammer Galleries, headquartered in New York, focuses on Impressionist and Modern Masters.
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