PU QUAN (1913-1991)

FLOWERS AND BIRDS IN THE SONG STYLE

Details

PU QUAN (1913-1991)
Flowers and Birds in the Song Style
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Inscribed and signed by the artist, with 3 seals
Dated autumn of jimao year (1939)
41¾ x 16¾ in. (106 x 42.5 cm.)

Literature

S. Little, Masterworks of Chinese Art: The Rosalind Ching Pastor Collection, Honolulu, 2005, pp. 63 and 74.

Exhibited

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Masterworks of Chinese Art: The Rosalind Ching Pastor Collection, 28 July - 25 September 2005.

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Lot Essay

Members of the Manchu imperial family, Pu Quan and Pu Jin were brothers , and were second cousins to the last emperor, Pu Yi, and his second, cousin Pu Ru. All were great-grandsons of the Daoguang Emperor and were educated in the Chinese classics, and learned traditional styles of painting and calligraphy.

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