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LOTS 1437 — 1439property of a swedish private COLLECTorPassionate about Chinese art and culture, the owners of the present collection paid several visits to important Chinese artists of the twentieth century during the 1980s, including Cheng Shifa, Zhu Qizhan and Xie Zhiliu. The three paintings presented here were directly acquired from the artists when the couple visited Cheng Shifa and Zhu Qizhan in the summer of 1987.
CHENG SHIFA (1921-2007)
Begonia
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CHENG SHIFA (1921-2007)
Begonia
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on gold paper
42.2 x 31.5 cm. (16 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with three seals of the artist
EXHIBITED:
Sweden, Liljevalch’s Art Hall, Masters from China,
item no. 6, Summer 1989.
USA, exhibited in 8 art institutions, including Chinese Culture Center, etc., Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China, item no. 5,
16 November 1983 -1 December 1985.
LITERATURE:
Masters from China: 20th Century Painting and Calligraphy in Tradition, Liljevalch’s Art Hall, Sweden, 1989, p. 35, pl. 6.
Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China, Commented in essays by James Cahill, Lucy Lim, Michael Sullivan, USA, 1983.
Orientations, Orientations Magazine Ltd., Hong Kong, October 1983, pl. 5.
Begonia
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on gold paper
42.2 x 31.5 cm. (16 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with three seals of the artist
EXHIBITED:
Sweden, Liljevalch’s Art Hall, Masters from China,
item no. 6, Summer 1989.
USA, exhibited in 8 art institutions, including Chinese Culture Center, etc., Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China, item no. 5,
16 November 1983 -1 December 1985.
LITERATURE:
Masters from China: 20th Century Painting and Calligraphy in Tradition, Liljevalch’s Art Hall, Sweden, 1989, p. 35, pl. 6.
Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China, Commented in essays by James Cahill, Lucy Lim, Michael Sullivan, USA, 1983.
Orientations, Orientations Magazine Ltd., Hong Kong, October 1983, pl. 5.
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