Chinese Art

Chinese Art

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Various artists, an album of seventy-one woodblock prints from Yan'an

Auction Closed

November 6, 03:25 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Description

ink on paper, album of seventy-one leaves

all leaves inscribed with artist names including Shih Lu (1919-1982), Gu Yuan (1919-1996) and Yan Han (1916-2011)


The largest 21.5 by 32.6 cm, 8½ by 12⅞ in.


Artists included:

Chan Chu 張菊: #54

Chan Wan 張望: #11

Chang Ming-tan 張明坦: #42, 48

Chao Pan-pin 趙泮濱: #10

Chi Kwei-sen 計桂森: #12, 13, 29

Chi Tan 戚單: #34

Chiao Hsin-ho 焦⼼河: #28

Hsia Feng 夏風: #6, 25, 35

Hsiao Shu 蕭肅: #43, 47, 50

Ku Yuan 古元: #8, 9, 15-18, 24, 36, 41

Kuo Chun 郭鈞: #21, 23, 55

Li Ch’un 力群: #33

Li Tzu-sheng 李梓盛: #32

Lo Kung-liu 羅工柳: #46, 49

Lung Hsing 龍行: #26, 27

Ma Ta 馬達: #30, 52, 53

Shih Lu 石魯: #31, 37-40, 44, 45, 51

Su Chien 蘇堅: #22

Wang Liu-chiu 王流秋: #7, 14

Wu Cha 沃渣: #5

Yang Tin-pin 楊廷賓: #2

Yen Han 彥涵: #3, 4, 19, 20, 56-71

Anonymous 佚名: #1

Gifted by Mao Zedong to Dame Isobel Cripps, GBE (1891-1979), President of British United Aid to China, on her visit to Yan'an, October 1946, by family understanding, thence by descent.

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