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LOTS 1953-1961
FORMER SEKKODO COLLECTIONVIMPORTANT QI BAISHI PAINTINGS
FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
This group of important paintings previously belonged to the
Sekkodo collection. An imminent trading company in Japan,
Sekkodo was given special rights by the Chinese government to
trade Chinese art, as well as iron, steel, synthetic fibers and
machine equipment.Founded in 1963 by Saionji Kinkazu (1906-
1993), he named his company with his wifes name, SaionjiYukie.
Mr.Kinkazu was born into a ducal family and became a politician
with a deep interest in Chinese communism. Graduating from
Oxford in 1930, Saionji worked in the Foreign Office, and then
travelled to the US and Europe to avoid the war. In 1955, he was
secretary of theWorld Peace Council inVienna, during which he
visited China and was nominated as a citizen diplomat in China.
His family later moved to Beijing as a member of the Sino-
Japanese Cultural ExchangeAssociation,meeting dignitaries such
as Zhou Enlai and other prominent party members.
These paintings were later acquired after 1960 by a private
Japanese collector who was a friend of the family since the 1930s.
Each painting in this collection comes with a slip indicating its
origin from the Sekkodo Collection (see illustrated).
QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Plum Blossoms
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QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Plum Blossoms
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated spring, second month, wuchen year (1928)
Dedicated to Zhongming
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
116.5 x 27.2 cm. (54 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
20th Century
Plum Blossoms
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated spring, second month, wuchen year (1928)
Dedicated to Zhongming
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
116.5 x 27.2 cm. (54 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
20th Century
榮譽呈獻
Yanie Choi
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