Sale 2387
Hong Kong
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26 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 247,500
Estimate
TAO LENGYUE (1895-1985) Running Streams underMoonlight Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper 124.5 x 50 cm. (49 x 19 3/4 in.) Inscribed with a poem and signed, with five seals of the artist Dated autumn, renzi year (1972)
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