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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 Sekkodo collection. An imminent trading company in Japan, was given Sekkodo was given special rights by the Chinese government to, as well trade Chinese art, as well as iron, steel, synthetic fibers and in 1963 machine equipment.Founded in 1963 by Saionji Kinkazu (1906-is wife's 1993), he named his company with his wifes name, SaionjiYukie.and Mr.Kinkazu was born into a ducal family and became a politician with a deep interest in Chinese communism. Graduating fromign Office, Oxford in 1930, Saionji worked in the Foreign Office, and then955, he travelled to the US and Europe to avoid the war. In 1955, he was he secretary of theWorld Peace Council inVienna, during which hea. His visited China and was nominated as a citizen diplomat in China.Cultural His family later moved to Beijing as a member of the Sino-ai and other Japanese Cultural Exchan
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)
Hanging Gourd
Details
QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Hanging Gourd
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
68 x 33.4 cm. (26 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.)
20th Century
Hanging Gourd
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
68 x 33.4 cm. (26 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.)
20th Century
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Yanie Choi
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