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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 China's 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 Wong's 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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XU BEIHONG (1895-1953)
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Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated twenty-seventh year (of the Republic, 1938)
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
113.5 x 43.2 cm. (44 3/4 x 17 in.)
20th Century
1
Cat
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated twenty-seventh year (of the Republic, 1938)
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
113.5 x 43.2 cm. (44 3/4 x 17 in.)
20th Century
1
Provenance
COLLECTION OF DR. JEHIM WONG FAMILY
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