Lot 703
  • 703

LIN FENGMIAN | Still Life

Estimate
1,200,000 - 2,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Still Life
  • signed in Chinese and stamped with the artist's seal
  • ink and colour on paper
  • 69.9 by 69.7 cm; 27 ½ by 27 ½ in.
executed in 1982

Provenance

Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 30 October 1995, Lot 257
Important Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Tokyo, Seibu Gallery, Master of Modern Chinese Painting - Lin Fengmianm, 1990
Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, The Approach of Lin Fengmian: The Centenary of Lin Fengmian, November 1999

Literature

Master of Modern Chinese Painting - Lin Fengmian, Seibu Department Stores Ltd., Tokyo, 1990, plate 50, p. 23
Xu Jiang, ed., The Approach of Lin Fengmian: The Centenary of Lin Fengmian, China Academy of Art Press, Hangzhou, 1999, p. 220
Yang Hualin, ed., The Complete Works of Lin Fengmian Vol. III, China Youth Press, Beijing, 2014, p. 110

Condition

The work is overall in very good condition. Upon close inspection, there are a few very minor hairline cracks in scattered places.
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