Sale 2387
Hong Kong
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26 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 100,000
Estimate
LIN HUKUI (lam wu-fui, born 1945) Fish Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper 75 x 142 cm. (29 1/2 x 55 7/8 in.) Inscribed, signed with two seals of the artist Dated 2007
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