[citation needed] It was owing to Chu's influence that Wu Guanzhong decided to abandon engineering and become an artist.

In 1945 Chu became a faculty member of the architecture department of the National Central University in Nanjing, then China's capital.

[2] In April 1956, Chu painted an oil on canvas portrait of his wife Tung Ching-Chao (董景昭), which won the silver medal at the Paris Salon.

On 17 December 1997, Chu was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of France, the first Frenchman of Chinese origin to be chosen.

His previous record was another diptych entitled "La Foret Blanche II", which was sold at auction in 2012 for HK$60 million, or $7.7 million USD[7] The current auction record for the artist is HKD 229,568,000 ($ 29,544,254), achieved on April 21, 2021 at Sotheby's Hong Kong for a large triptych "Harmonie hivernale", from the artist's acclaimed snowscape series.

[8] On 26 March 2014, Chu Teh-Chun died in Paris at age 93, closely following the deaths of his friends and fellow modern artists Wu Guanzhong in 2010 and Zao Wou-Ki in 2013.