Sale 2855
Hong Kong, HKCEC Grand Hall
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29 May 2011
Price realised
HKD 62,500
Estimate
SHIY DE JINN (XI DEJIN, 1923-1981) Portrait; & Folk Song Singing Portrait: signed 'Shiy De Jinn' in Pinyin; dated '1956'; signed in Chinese (lower right) charcoal on paper; & marker pen on paper 39 x 27.3 cm. (15 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.); & 38.8 x 45.7 cm. (15 1/4 x 18 in.) (2) Painted in 1956 one seal of the artist (2)
Provenance
Private Collection, Asia
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Literature
Artist Publishing Co., Sketches of Shiy Dejinn, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992 (Folk Song Singing illustrated, unpaged)
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