Qi Baishi

Collection of Hsiung Shih-i (1902-1991).

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Modern Chinese Paintings, 28 May 1980, Lot 17.

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來源︰

熊式一（1902-1991）收藏

香港蘇富比，中國書畫拍賣，1980年5月28日，編號17

Han Mo 14, Special Study on Qi Baishi, Han Mo Xuan Publishing Co. Ltd., March 1991, p.117

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著錄︰

〈名家翰墨〉第十四期，齊白石特集（翰墨軒，一九九一年三月），頁117

The painting was formerly in the collection of Hsiung Shih-i(Xiong Shiyi). Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, Hsiung was a celebrated dramatist, educator, and translator. Regarded by Xu Zhimo as “the leading Chinese scholar of English drama”, he translated many important works of English literature. In 1932, Hsiung travelled to England and wrote a new play in English based on the Chinese story Wang Baochuan, which held the record of running for nine hundred nights in three consecutive years in London. Before settling in Hong Kong in the late 1950s, he had taught at various institutions including the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Hawai’i in the United States, and Nanyang University in Singapore.

Hsiung maintained close contact with the painting and calligraphy circles at the time. His rich personal collection, largely comprised of gifts, attests to his relationship with the cultural figures. In the 1960s, in order to fund the establishment of Tsing Hua College, he sold his collection which included masterpieces by Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong, and Fu Baoshi.

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註：熊式一，江西南昌人，著名戲劇家、教育家、翻譯家。他翻譯了大量英文名著，徐志摩譽為「中國研究英國戲劇第一人」。一九三二年西渡英倫，將〈王寶釧〉故事編為英文舞台劇，在倫敦創三年連演九百場的記錄。先後執教於劍橋大學、倫敦大學、美國夏威夷大學及新加坡南洋大學，五十年代末定居香港。

熊氏與書畫藝文界交往頻密，獲贈頗夥，收藏甚豐。六十年代為籌備創辦清華書院，散出所藏，其中張大千、齊白石、黄賓虹、徐悲鴻、傅抱石等尤精。