Sale 2387
Hong Kong
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26 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 511,500
Estimate
QIAN SONGYAN (1896-1985) Landscape Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper 167 x 84.5 cm. (65 3/4 x 33 1/4 in.) Inscribed with a poem and signed, with four seals of the artist Dedicated to Zhenhuan Dated winter, guiwei year (1943)
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