Lot Essay
The recipient of this painting was Tang Yifeng (1942-2011). Tang was active in the film industry in Hong Kong in the 1960s and used Tang Wen as her stage name. She was a descendant of Tang Shaoyi, a foreign minister in the late Qing Dynasty. In the middle of the 1970s, she was engaged in fashion design and Chinese fine brush painting. She excelled in flower-and-bird paintings with a style that is elegant, vivid and emotional.