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From a Prominent North American Collection (Lots 653-655)
HUA YAN (1682-1756)
Shooting Wild Geese in the Autumnal Plain
Details
HUA YAN (1682-1756)
Shooting Wild Geese in the Autumnal Plain
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
125.8 x 52.3 cm. (49 ½ x 20 ½ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated spring, yihai year (1755)
One collector’s seal of Dai Zhi (19th C.)
Shooting Wild Geese in the Autumnal Plain
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
125.8 x 52.3 cm. (49 ½ x 20 ½ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated spring, yihai year (1755)
One collector’s seal of Dai Zhi (19th C.)
Provenance
Christie’s New York, Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy, 2 June 1988, Lot 90.
Literature
An-yi Pan and Ellen Avril, Nature Observed and Imagined: Five Hundred Years of Chinese Painting, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, 2010, cat. 25, pp. 88-89.
Exhibited
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Nature Observed and Imagined: Five Hundred Years of Chinese Painting, 10 April – 13 June 2010.
Further details
Assembled over four decades by a distinguished Chinese-American family, the present collection represents one of the most significant privately held groups of Chinese paintings in North America. The family, closely connected to a vibrant circle of scholars and collectors including C.C. Wang and Professor Wen Fong, played a formative role in advancing scholarship, connoisseurship and the broader appreciation of Chinese paintings, alongside their many contributions to the arts and education. In 2023, Christie’s was honoured to present Flowers and Calligraphy by Chen Chun from this collection, formerly from the collection of Professor Wen Fong, which realized HK$28,810,000. The present selection of paintings, extensively published and exhibited, reflects the family’s singular vision as collectors.
Brought to you by
Carmen Shek Cerne (石嘉雯)
Vice President, Head of Department, Chinese Paintings