Frogs

Details

DING YANYONG (1902-1978)
Frogs
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on paper
104 x 33.5 cm. (41 x 13 1⁄4 in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated wushen year (1968)
Dedicated to Yunxuan

Further Details

Yuan Hongshu (1910-2012), originally from Dongguan, Guangdong province, was the son of renowned poet and educator Yuan Congzhou. Yuan grew up surrounded by Chinese paintings and culture. After moving to Hong Kong in 1949, he worked in education and became active in the art and cultural circle. Later Yuan studied under Ding Yanyong to befriended the master, subsequently assisting Ding to edit and publish his exhibition catalogue in 1973. Yuan amassed a collection of Ding’s paintings over the years; in the 1990s, he generously donated over a hundred ink and oil paintings of Ding Yanyong to the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Lot Essay

The current lot is similar in size, composition and date to another Frogs painting that Yuan Hongshu donated to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (See The Sanbuyi Tang Collection of Masterworks by Ting Yin Yung published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 119). As a token of their friendship, Ding Yanyong dedicated the current lot to Yuan, and in turn, he retained this painting in his collection for a long time.

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