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FROM A DANISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
These paintings were acquired in Beijing by noted physicist and Nobel laureate Aage Niels Bohr (1922-2009) who visited China in 1962 and again in 1973. Aage Bohr was the son of the famous Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). In his youth Aage Bohr worked and traveled with his father, and became a professor at the University of Copenhagen. In 1970 he succeeded his father as director of the Niels Bohr Institute. Dr. Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his research on the internal structure of atoms.
Like his son, Niels Bohr also traveled to China in a professional capacity, as he presented seven lectures in the country in 1937. Aage Bohr traveled in an official capacity in 1962 and succeeded in signing an agreement to establish research exchange between Denmark and the People's Republic of China. At that time, the Niels Bohr Institute was the only physics center in the West that received scientists from China and the Soviet Union. During his stay in Beijing in 1973, Dr. Bohr visited the well-known gallery Rongbaozhai, where these paintings were bought, and they have remained in his family since that time. In 1985 Aage Bohr was awarded the highly prestigious Honorary Doctorate Degree of the People's Republic of China.
LI KUCHAN (1898-1983)
Lotus
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LI KUCHAN (1898-1983)
Lotus
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated autumn, xinchou year (1961)
Futher inscribed and signed by Babai Laoren, with one seal
Dated sixth month, 1962
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
69 x 45 cm. (27 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
20th Century
Lotus
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated autumn, xinchou year (1961)
Futher inscribed and signed by Babai Laoren, with one seal
Dated sixth month, 1962
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
69 x 45 cm. (27 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
20th Century
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