This collection is offered by a family who were long-time friends of Zhao Shaoang, one of the foremost painters of the Lingnan School. Within the family Chao Tsin (Zhao Zhaojun, b.1909) was particularly close to the painter. Mr. Chao was a well known engraver and worked for the Chung-hwa Book Company. Among his many accomplishments, he prepared the engraving of the image of Sun Yatsen and chose the background painting by Zhao Shaoang that forms the 10,000 note during Republic of China. Chao Tsin was also an avid patron of the arts and collected paintings throughout his life. While he was closest with Zhao Shaoang, he was also friends with many other artists. Throughout Zhao Shaoang and Chao Tsins long friendship, which spanned more than fifty years, the artist from time to time lived with the latters family. In 1943 they lived together in Pine Forest in Chongqing and again in 1945 in Hong Kong. During these sojourns, Chao Tsin enthusiastically promoted exhibitions of his friends work and in return, he and his family were often given their choice of works by Zhao Shaoang.

HUANG BINHONG (1864-1955)

Houses Among Peaks

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HUANG BINHONG (1864-1955)
Houses Among Peaks
Inscribed and signed, with with two seals of the artist
Dated bingxu year (1946)
Dedicated to Zhaojun
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
101.5 x 40.6 cm. (40 x 16 in.)
20th Century
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Painted for Zhao Jun in 1946, Huang Binhong's landscape painting was believed to be a gift to Zhao specially made from the artist. Huang once essayed:

"A good painting is orderly in its disorder, disorderly in its order; it is totally permeated with dynamic energy; this energetic flow endows it with an active presence, a musical quality; it is inhabited with a life of its own." - Selected Sayings of Huang Binhong translated by Dr. P. Ryckmans.

The dynamic energy which Huang talks of is evident in this painting - it symbolises the height of his creative vision at the age of 83, where years of training enabled him to blend soul and skill onto paper, standing out as a truly exeptional landscape artist of his time.