Qi Baishi (1864-1957)

Estimate

15,000,000 - 20,000,000 HKD

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Description

Qi Baishi
WILLOWS AT THE RIVERSIDE; BEGONIAS
ink on gold screen; ink and colour on gold screen, pair of screens

signed QI BAISHI, dated ren xu, 1922, autumn, the eighth lunar month, and inscribed. Later inscribed again, and signed BAISHI WENG. The other, signed BAISHI, and inscribed. Later inscribed again, signed SANBAISHIYIN FUWENG, and with a total of four seals of the artist. Annotation by Yuzo Sugimura on the handscroll, signed RENQIU XUEREN, dated March 1975, and with two seals of his. Titleslip of the handscroll by Sugimura himself, and with one seal of his

Provenance

Previously in the collection of the Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general Mantaro Watanabe
Sotheby's Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Paintings, October 1991, Lot 65

Literature

Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years (1973-1993), Sotheby's & Woods Publishing Company, 1993, pl.682

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