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The following two paintings, lots 1336 and 1337, were formerly in the collections of two US military commanders: Lt Colonel William Mozey and Mitchell Werbell III (1918-83). Werbell was an Office of Strategic Services (SOS) operative and firearms engineer. He served as a guerrilla operative in China during World War II where he was reputedly gifted these two paintings by a Chinese warlord in 1945. He later served as a Major General in the US Army during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. It is in Vietnam that he met Lt. Col. William Mozey later gifting him these scrolls. Mozey built an extensive collection of Japanese weapons, thought to be one of the largest in the world, that he donated to the National Infantry Museum in Columbus,Georgia, US.

19TH CENTURY

FIGURES AMONGST MOUNTAINS

Details

19TH CENTURY
FIGURES AMONGST MOUNTAINS
Handscroll, ink and colour on paper
After the artist Wen Zhengming, signed, with three seals.
594.4 x 27.5 cm. (234 x 10.7/8 in.)

Provenance

Formerly in the Collection of Lt. Colonel William Mozey.
Collection of Mitchell Werbell III (1918-83).

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