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This painting was created in 1991, in the spring of that year, Wu Guanzhong's wife Zhu Biqin was seriously ill, and the painter found the old manuscript of his wife's early painting of lilacs, and re-brushed to create this work. The flower language of lilacs is: eternal knot and love. Wu Guanzhong's lilacs are in full bloom, the flowers are fan-shaped and blooming outward, the pen is majestic, the colors are bright, and they are full of deep emotions for his wife.
Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) "Lilac" rape canvas Creation time: 1991 Size: 455 x 38.3 cm
Style: Tea 91 (bottom right).Hammer price: HK$17,000,000Price realised: HK$20,040,000The top seller of the sale, Wu Guanzhong's oil painting "Lilacs", is the cover work of this sale, with an estimate of HK$8 million - 16 million. Auctioneer John Chong started at HK$7.2 million, and the first seats in Hong Kong and Beijing, with on-site and online buyers bidding a lot, pushing the asking price to HK$10 million after 11 bids. 
The bidding battle that followed was mainly between the first commissioned client of Vita Chen (General Manager and Senior Specialist of the 20th Century and Contemporary Art Department in Asia) and a man on the spot. After 10 bids, the auctioneer sold for HK$17 million, HK$1 million more than the high estimate before the auction, and the price was HK$20 million, which was won by a man with a mark of 239. The gentleman also won the HK$3 million bid for Ding Yanyong's floral still life painting "Lan Zhi". 
Wu Guanzhong and Zhu Biqin got married in 1946 and returned to the winning "Lilac", which can be said to be a love poem written by Wu Guanzhong to his wife, recording that the two have supported each other for half a century. The flower language behind the lilac is: Eternal knot and love Wu Guanzhong's lilacs are in full bloom and full of affection. Back in 1991, Wu Guanzhong was already a well-known artist at home and abroad, awarded the highest medal of French culture and art by the French Ministry of Culture, and was preparing for a large-scale solo exhibition to be held at the British Museum the following year. However, in the spring of that year, his wife, Zhu Biqin, suffered from a cerebral thrombosis and was in such a serious condition that Wu Guanzhong was so worried that he could not paint. 
During this period, he saw the old manuscript of his wife's early painting of lilacs, which aroused the desire to re-raise the pen, so he painted this auction "Lilac", which carried deep emotions for his wife. The composition of the painting is a round sky, and the flowers bloom outward in a fan-shape, and the pen is majestic. Wu Guanzhong created only ten still life paintings of vases in his lifetime, and this work is the only one with the theme of lilacs, which is included in Wu Guanzhong's 1992 self-selected collection of paintings. The book contains only 65 oil paintings that Wu Lao considered to be the best, and "Lilac" is one of them. In 1992, the work was exhibited at the exhibition Who Sees the White Head Dance: Wu Guanzhong's solo exhibition at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, Taipei, and the work remained in the possession for 30 years until its debut at auction in 2021. Solicitation of works of art for auction
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