YU YOUREN (1879-1964)
YU YOUREN (1879-1964)

Cursive Script Calligraphy

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YU YOUREN (1879-1964)
Cursive Script Calligraphy
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated eleventh month, forty-third year (of the Republic, 1954)
Dedicated to Mengwan
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
102 x 32 cm. (40 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
20th Century

Lot Essay

Zhao Juyu (1913-1981), sobriquet Mengwan, was a native of Hunan, and studied at Shanghai Fudan University. He attended the Guo Min Revolutionary Army after graduation. After the end of the Sino-Japanese war, he took up the post of Hangzhou branch manager for the Central Trust of China. Settling in Taiwan in 1949, Zhao entered the finance industry before taking up a post at the Veterans Affairs Commission. During his time he oversaw the establishment of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and became minister before he retired.

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