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GU LUO (1763- AFTER 1837)

Lot 880
28.05.2022 14:30UTC +08:00
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HKD 119 700
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ID 770777
Lot 880 | GU LUO (1763- AFTER 1837)
Estimate value
HKD 100 000 – 200 000
GU LUO (1763- AFTER 1837)
Burying Fallen Blossoms
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
86.7 x 30.6 cm. (34 1⁄8 x 12 in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with one seal of the artist Dedicated to Youxiang
Four collector’s seals: two of Zhao Zhiqian (1829-1884) and two of Ma Dehong (19th-20th Century)




Provenance

Hanart Gallery, Chinese Painting & Calligraphy: A Special Exhibition and Sale, 22 November - 17 December 1988, cat.50. Lot 617, 14 September 2016, The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings, Sotheby’s New York.



Literature

Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China’s Empire 1796- 1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1992, pp.90-91, cat.32.
Journeys on Paper and Silk: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1998, pp.150-153, cat.46. Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese painting: Selections from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 2013, pp.50-51, 89, cat.23.
Claudia Brown, Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911, University of Washington Press, 2014, p.143, fig. 5.15.



Exhibited

Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China’s Empire 1796- 1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 22 August – 4 October 1992; Denver
Art Museum, 7 November 1992 – 3 January 1993; Honolulu Academy of Arts, 17 March – 19 April 1993; Hong Kong Museum of Art, 14 May – 18 July 1993.
Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, Journeys on Paper and Silk: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, 28 February -19 April 1998.
Nashville, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Lyrical Traditions: Four Centuries of Chinese Paintings from the Papp Collection, 22 June – 7 October 2007.
Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese Painting: Selections from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection, 27 April – 2 September 2013.
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