Spider Lily and Mantis

Details

ZHAO SHAO'ANG (1905-1998)
Spider Lily and Mantis
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated ninth month, thirty-seventh year (of the Republic, 1948)
Dedicated to Ai'min
Titleslip by Lin Ai'min
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
86.4 x 44.5 cm. (34 x 17 1/2 in.)
20th Century

Provenance

Lot 20, Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings, 2 November 1998

Literature

Famous Modern Chinese Painters, Han Mo Xuan Publishing Co. Ltd, Hong Kong, September 1992, pl,43.

Lot Essay

Lin Ai'min (1906-1964) was president of the Sing Tao Daily in the 1940s and 1950s. He represented Hong Kong's Newspaper Association to attend the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing in 1959.

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