Lot Essay
The painting is accompanied by a certificate issued by artist’s family.
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Fishing Port
Details
LUI SHOU KWAN (LÜ SHOUKUN, 1919-1975)
Fishing Port
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
92.5 x 47 cm. (36 3/8 x 18 ½ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
One collector’s seal of the artist’s wife Mui Sin-Ping
Dated sixth month, guimao year (1963)
Fishing Port
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
92.5 x 47 cm. (36 3/8 x 18 ½ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
One collector’s seal of the artist’s wife Mui Sin-Ping
Dated sixth month, guimao year (1963)
Further Details
Lui Shou Kwan’s love for the sea is noted in many of his paintings, from paying tribute to J. M. W. Turner in Storm in 1946 to the prolific body of works depicting the Hong Kong harbour, such as Aberdeen in 1963. This can also be attributed to his vicinity to the sea, as Lui worked at The Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company from 1949 to 1966 as an inspector. In Fishing Port, Lui portrayed a quaint scene of fishing junks mooring at a typhoon shelter, during the time when fishing was still the livelihood of many in Hong Kong.
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