Sale 2387
Hong Kong
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26 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 427,500
Estimate
LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991) Village, Village Women A set of two scrolls, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper Each scroll measures 35.5 x 35.5 cm (13 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.) Eachscroll signed and with one seal of hte artist (2)
Provenance
Previously owned by Dino Terese Markowitz, daughter of Lin Fengmian
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Literature
Caimo Jianshan Zhan (selections of colour landscape paintings), Hebei Education Ublishing House, 2002, pp. 4-5
US$32,300-42,500
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