FOR a sense of Hong Kong's history, the works in China Trade Paintings 1803-1903 at Wattis Fine Art, 20 Hollywood Road, Central, offer a range of works with views of Hong Kong, the Pearl River and Macau. There is a striking portrait by the Chinese artist Lamqua of General Sir Hugh Gough, a fearsome Irish veteran of the Peninsula War whose preferred military strategy was just to cry 'Charge'. As well as drawings of Macau by the doyen of China Trade Painting, George Chinnery - who also has a portrait of a gentleman in oils in the show - the latest work in the show is by the post-Impressionist Jean Jacques Rousseau, a view in oils of the harbour at night, dated 1903. The show is on until April 28.
Many of the celebrated artists of the late 19th and 20th century are included in Selected Works by European Masters III at the Schoeni Gallery, 5C, On Hing Building, On Hing Terrace, Central, from today. The exhibition, run in association with Connaught Brown of London, features works by Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. The show runs from today to April 8 only.
The modern realist works of Japanese artist Kozo Mio are being shown by the Wagner Gallery, 7/F, Lusitano Building, 4 Duddell, Central, until April 15. Two other Japanese artists Keiji Hiramatsu and Kozo Inoue are also featured alongside Mio.
Considered as the most powerful spiritual symbol of Central Asia, Mount Kailas, the 6714-metre mountain on the Chang Tang plateau of western Tibet, is represented in 40 paintings using brush, ink and colours on absorbent papers in the Chinese tradition by long-time Hong Kong resident Werner Hahn at the Pao Galleries, 5/F, the Arts Centre, Wan Chai, from April 4-7.
Subtitled 'A Photojournalistic Account of 1994', Focus At the Frontline in the atrium of the Arts Centre throughout April, follows on the success of the World Press Photo Exhibition last October with a tribute to local press photographers, including images by three South China Morning Post staff, Robert Ng, Oliver Tsang and Jon Hargest.
