Chu Teh-chun to Hugues Gall: A Gift from a Painter to an Opera Director

This painting making its debut at auction, whose colors seem in joyous turmoil, was a gift from the Chinese master to Hugues Gall, former director of the Paris and Geneva opera houses. A gift from one Academy member to another… Chu Teh-chun (1920-2014), Effervescence, 2006, oil on canvas signed, dated 2006, countersigned, titled and dated again on the back, 65 x 81 cm/25.6 x 31.9 in.Estimate: €80,000/120,000 An inscription on the back of the canvas reads “To my dear colleague Hugues Gall, as a token of friendship, Chu Teh-chun.” To the left of the inscription is the title, "Effervesence" (sic), the artist's signature