PU RU (1896-1963)

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PU RU (1896-1963)

Eighteen Buddhist Lohans

Scroll, mounted for framing, ink on paper, in three sections:

Lohans, 11 x 82½in. (209.5 x 28cm.)
Inscribed and entitled: "In the fall of jiaxu year (1934), [I] obtained a remnant of a roll of old paper and so made a painting of 18 Lohans", signed: Xishan Jishi Pu Ru with two seals: Pu Ru Zhi Yin, Jiu Wang Sun

Colophon in running script (xing shu) by Ye Gongchuo (1881-1968), 11½ x 35 5/8in. (29.2 x 90.5cm.), signed: Xia'an Ye Gongchuo and dated the first month of the thirty-third year (of the Republic, 1944) with four seals

Frontispiece by Ye Gongchao, 10¾ x 37in. (27.3 x 94cm.), inscribed and signed: Gongchao with two seals

Inscription on mounting dedicated to Mr. Li'ang and signed: "Yu Zhaoxing in Hong Kong"