FROM A PRIVATE HONG KONG COLLECTION (LOTS 1309-1312)This Hong Kong collection comes from the former collection of Mr Ximu, a native of Lin Fengmian’s hometown of Meixian, Guangdong province. Lin’s paintings form the majority of the collection, including pieces dedicated to his compatriots from Guangdong such as Xu Dongbai, who was a native of Dongguan and studied oil paintings (Lot 1312). Interestingly, all the works in this collection were produced in the 1940s in Chongqing, including numerous pieces by the teaching faculty from the National Academies of Fine Arts and Nanjing Central University Fine Art Department who had followed the Nationalist government’s retreat to Sichuan. The collection offers an intimate portrait of the close artistic exchanges between artists and government officials gathered in wartime Chongqing, recorded in verse, calligraphy and painting. Part of the collection was sold in Christie’s 2018 Spring and Autumn sales.

LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)

Chicks under Chrysanthemum

Details

LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)
Chicks under Chrysanthemum
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
61 x 41 cm. (24 x 16 1/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated thirty-third year (of the Republic, 1944)
Dedicated to Dongbai

Literature

Han Mo 24, Han Mo Xuan Publishing Co., Ltd., January 1992, p.8.

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Lot Essay

The recipient of this painting was Xu Dongbai (1900-1989). Born in Dongguan, Guangdong, Xu studied oil paintings in the National Guangdong Normal University and graduated in 1920. Afterwards, he taught in multiple schools in Guangdong and Hong Kong.

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