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FAMILY COLLECTION OF GENERAL ZHANG FAKUI (LOTS 1242-1244) Born in Guangdong province, Zhang was Second Lieutenant General in the Army of the Nationalist Party of China. He was an active participant during the Second Sino-Japanese war and had a prominent career in the army. He was successively appointed as Group Army Commander in Chief, Army Corp Commander in Chief and Military Region Commander in Chief. After the war, he was appointed a member of the Presidential Strategic Advisory Board. In March 1949, he became the Army Chief, but resigned in July and permanently moved to Hong Kong. Although Zhang spent his life in the military, he regarded arts as an integral part of education and established schools to educate future generations. He also donated sets of important encyclopedias to the National Library.Paintings from this collection were sold in Christie’s Fine Chinese Modern Paintings sale in Hong Kong in 2012, 2014 and Spring 2018. Thirteen works from the collection are also available in Christie’s online sale Exquisite Eye: Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy during 19-26 November. (Lots 1648-1660)
FENG YUXIANG (1882-1948)
Calligraphy in Clerical Script
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FENG YUXIANG (1882-1948)
Calligraphy in Clerical Script
Album of fourteen leaves, mounted as one scroll, ink on paper
31 x 241 cm. (12 ¼ x 94 7/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with nine seals of the artist
Dated 12th September, thirty-second year (of the Republic, 1943)
Dedicated to Xianghua (General Zhang Fakui)
Frontispiece inscribed and signed by the artist, with two seals
Calligraphy in Clerical Script
Album of fourteen leaves, mounted as one scroll, ink on paper
31 x 241 cm. (12 ¼ x 94 7/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with nine seals of the artist
Dated 12th September, thirty-second year (of the Republic, 1943)
Dedicated to Xianghua (General Zhang Fakui)
Frontispiece inscribed and signed by the artist, with two seals
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