Hon Chi Fun

Hong Kong | 1922 - 2019

Hon Chi Fun was a Hong Kong Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1922. Numerous key galleries and museums such as University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong have featured Hon Chi Fun's work in the past.Hon Chi Fun's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 177 USD to 29,030 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 29,030 USD for Hsiang 65-5, sold at Christie's Hong Kong in 2015. Hon Chi Fun has been featured in articles for ARTFORUM, Art Asia Pacific and Ocula. The most recent article is Hong Kong Artist Hon Chi-Fun’s Fascination with Light Explored in New Show written for South China Morning Post in March 2019. The artist died in 2019.

Artist's alternative names: Han Zhixun

UNTITLED

mixed media on burlap mounted on board

76.5 x 76.5 cm. (30 1/8 x 30 1/8 in.)

Rite of Red, 1993

oil on canvas

40 x 40 in (101.5 x 101.5cm)

Rite of Red, 1993

Oil on canvas

101.5 x 101.5 cm.

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Lustrous Possession

By Hon Chi Fun

-40%

below mid-estimate

Cowley Abbott (Consignor Canadian Fine Art)

HON CHI FUN - 3 WORKS - LITHOGRAPH

By Hon Chi Fun

Capsule Gallery Auction

abstract

By Hon Chi Fun

Burstow & Hewett Abbey Auction Gallery

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Past Exhibitions

Across Time and Space: Re-visiting Twentieth-Century Chinese Oil Paintings

University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong | Hong Kong

Mar 15,2023 - Jun 25,2023

20/20 Hong Kong Print Art Exhibition

Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Shatin | Hong Kong

Oct 07,2020 - Sep 06,2021

Uniquely Hong Kong: A Celebration Of Hong Kong Art

Alisan Fine Arts, Central

Central | Hong Kong | Hong Kong

Jun 12,2020 - Sep 26,2020

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Articles

Hong Kong Artist Hon Chi-Fun’s Fascination with Light Explored in New Show

South China Morning Post 15/03/2019

Over 30 works of the Hong Kong modernist artist, who recently died at the age of 96, are on show at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre

Hong Kong Artist Hon Chi-Fun, Who Blended Traditional East with Modern West, Dies Aged 96

South China Morning Post 01/03/2019

Hon, born in 1922, moved among art genres such as acrylic paintings, Taoism inspired screen prints, multimedia works and writing poetry

Hon Chi Fun (1922–2019)

ARTFORUM 28/02/2019

Hong Kong–based artist Hon Chi Fun, the founder of the Circle Art Group whose paintings, photographs, and silk-screen prints gave form to his investigations into Taoism, spirituality, and phenomenology, died on Sunday, February 24, ArtAsiaPacific reports. He was ninety-six...

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Coverage

“ ..Through considering the different ways Hon focuses on light in his work, one can discern his desire to resist being labelled or historicized... ”
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Asia Society and Museum, Hong Kong