These paintings are offered by the family of Dr. Jehim Wong (Huang Zhiqian,1910-1969), whose sister Dorothy Shiu-king Wong (Huang Shaoqiong, 1905-1985) married into the Zheng family, who were politically important and socially active. The Zheng family were friends with Xu Beihong. Hoping to raise money and awareness for Chinas plight during the Sino-Japanese War, in 1938 Xu asked Jehim Wong, whose father had been childhood friends with Sun Yatsen, to help sell his paintings in the United States. Despite Wongs best efforts to sell the pictures at a department store near his restaurant in Chicago, none of the fifty paintings sold. In appreciation, Xu invited Wong to keep four of the paintings for himself before returning the rest. Three of the four paintings feature animals that display the energy and determination with which Xu Beihong felt that China could endure and eventually prosper.

XU BEIHONG (1895-1953)

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徐悲鴻昂首迎風水墨紙本鏡框一九三八年作
題識：廿七年 (1938) 歲盡悲鴻作於香港。
鈐印：悲鴻

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COLLECTION OF DR. JEHIM WONG FAMILY

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