Lot Essay
This painting was on loan to the Birmingham Museum of Art from 1982 to 1996.
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LOTS 23-31PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTIONThis collection was assembled by a surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama who spent time in Korea as an officer in the United States Navy. He was a member of the Birmingham Asian Art Society, which formed in 1979 to support the museum’s acquisitions and educational programs. Members of this group also collected paintings under the advice of the eminent scholars and curators Sherman Lee and Lucy Lim.
GAO YIHONG (1908-1982)
Peonies
Details
GAO YIHONG (1908-1982)
Peonies
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
53 5/8 x 35 ¼ in. (136.3 x 89.5 cm.)
Inscribed and signed, with four seals of the artist
Dated guimao year (1963)
Dedicated to Yadong and Madame Dongni
Peonies
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
53 5/8 x 35 ¼ in. (136.3 x 89.5 cm.)
Inscribed and signed, with four seals of the artist
Dated guimao year (1963)
Dedicated to Yadong and Madame Dongni
Provenance
Christie’s New York, Important Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, 23 June 1982, lot 512.