WEN SHU (1595-1634) - photo 1

WEN SHU (1595-1634)

Lot 877
28.05.2022 14:30UTC +08:00
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HKD 189 000
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ID 770781
Lot 877 | WEN SHU (1595-1634)
Estimate value
HKD 80 000 – 150 000
WEN SHU (1595-1634)
Flowers, Rock And Butterfly
Fan leaf, mounted and framed, ink and colour on gold-flecked paper
16 x 50 cm. (6 1⁄4 x 19 5⁄8 in.)
Signed, with two seals of the artist




Provenance

Lot 537, 14 September 2016, The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings, Sotheby’s New York.



Literature

Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1989, cat. 11.
Marsha Weidner et al., Views from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artist 1300-1912, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1998, p.185.
Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese painting: Selections from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 2013, pp. 18, 85, cat. 13.



Exhibited

Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, 18 March - 7 May 1989; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, 8 March
- 22 April 1990; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 28 September - 24 November 1991; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 25 October - 27 December 1992; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, 18 April - 20 June 1993; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 29 January - 20 March 1994; Crocker Art Museum, California, 30 October - 31 December 1997; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 31 January - 28 March 1999; Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, 3 October - 10 December 2000.
Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese painting: Selections from the Marilyn and Roy papp Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 27 April - 2 September 2013.
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