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FROM A PRIVATE HONG KONG COLLECTION (LOTS 1340-1343)This Hong Kong collection comes from the former collection of Mr Ximu, a native of Lin Fengmian’s hometown of Meixian, Guangdong province. Lin’s paintings form the bulk of the collection, including pieces dedicated to his compatriots from Meixian such as Guo Guanjie, who was a native a Meixian and studied in France (Lot 1343). Interestingly, all the works in this collection were produced in 1940s Chongqing, including numerous pieces by faculty from the National Academies of Fine Arts and Nanjing Central University Fine Art Department who had followed the Nationalist government’s retreat to Sichuan. Lin Fengmian, Pan Tianshou, Li Keran, Ding Yanyong, Xu Beihong and Zhao Shao’ang are all represented in the collection, alongside key members of the Republican Government, such as Zou Lu and Liang Hancao. The collection offers an intimate portrait of the close artistic exchange between artists and government officials gathered in wartime Chongqing, recorded in verse, calligraphy and painting. Part of the collection was sold in Christie’s 2018 Spring sale.
LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)
Pulling a Boat
Details
LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)
Pulling a Boat
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
11.5 x 31 cm. (4 ½ x 12 ¼ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated thirty-third year (of the Republic, 1944)
Pulling a Boat
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
11.5 x 31 cm. (4 ½ x 12 ¼ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated thirty-third year (of the Republic, 1944)
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