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LOTS 1953-1961
Former Sekkodo collection-IMPORTANT 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 wife's name, Saionji Yukie. 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 the World Peace Council in Vienna, 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 Exchange Association, 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)
Calling Birds Amidst Plum Blossoms
Details
QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Calling Birds Amidst Plum Blossoms
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated winter, dinghai year (1947)
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
137 x 34 cm. (53 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
20th Century
Calling Birds Amidst Plum Blossoms
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated winter, dinghai year (1947)
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
137 x 34 cm. (53 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
20th Century
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Yanie Choi
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