Sale 2387
Hong Kong
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26 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 271,500
Estimate
LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991) Besides the Willow Scholar in Leisure Boating A set of three scrolls, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper Each scrolls measure 22.5 x 26.5 cm. (8 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.) Each scroll signed, with one seal of the artist (3)
Provenance
Property of Dino Terese Markowitz, daughter of Lin Fengmian.
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