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These paintings are offered by the family of Dr. Jehim Wong (Huang Zhiqian,1910-1969), whose sister Dorothy Shiu-king Wong (Huang Shaoqiong, 1905-1985) married into the Zheng family, who were politically important and socially active. The Zheng family were friends with Xu Beihong. Hoping to raise money and awareness for Chinas plight during the Sino-Japanese War, in 1938 Xu asked Jehim Wong, whose father had been childhood friends with Sun Yatsen, to help sell his paintings in the United States. Despite Wongs best efforts to sell the pictures at a department store near his restaurant in Chicago, none of the fifty paintings sold. In appreciation, Xu invited Wong to keep four of the paintings for himself before returning the rest. Three of the four paintings feature animals that display the energy and determination with which Xu Beihong felt that China could endure and eventually prosper.
XU BEIHONG (1895-1953)
Spring Call
細節
徐悲鴻 春曉鳥鳴 設色紙板 鏡框 一九三八年作
題識：悲鴻，廿七年 (1938) 除夕。
鈐印：悲
黃誌謙家族珍藏
黃誌謙其姊黃少瓊夫家鄭氏，與徐悲鴻私交甚深，在中國和香港具有重要的政治和社會地位的望族。黃誌謙的父親黃孟松亦是社會賢達，與孫中山先生更是總角之交。1938年，徐悲鴻為抗日戰爭募款，並希望喚起各界對中國苦難困境的重視，遂請黃志謙為他在美國籌辦畫展。他傾盡全力以助，安排在其芝加哥餐館附近的百貨公司內，展銷徐悲鴻五十幅畫作，可惜無一售出。故退還全數畫作，徐悲鴻為答謝黃誌謙的幫忙，特贈其四幅作品。三幅以動物為題，生動活潑，寄托畫家對中國崛起的信念和希望。
題識：悲鴻，廿七年 (1938) 除夕。
鈐印：悲
黃誌謙家族珍藏
黃誌謙其姊黃少瓊夫家鄭氏，與徐悲鴻私交甚深，在中國和香港具有重要的政治和社會地位的望族。黃誌謙的父親黃孟松亦是社會賢達，與孫中山先生更是總角之交。1938年，徐悲鴻為抗日戰爭募款，並希望喚起各界對中國苦難困境的重視，遂請黃志謙為他在美國籌辦畫展。他傾盡全力以助，安排在其芝加哥餐館附近的百貨公司內，展銷徐悲鴻五十幅畫作，可惜無一售出。故退還全數畫作，徐悲鴻為答謝黃誌謙的幫忙，特贈其四幅作品。三幅以動物為題，生動活潑，寄托畫家對中國崛起的信念和希望。
來源
COLLECTION OF DR. JEHIM WONG FAMILY