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WU ZUOREN (1908-1997)

Lot 1133
01.12.2023 14:30UTC +08:00
Classic
Starting price
HKD 800 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 1089192
Lot 1133 | WU ZUOREN (1908-1997)
Estimate value
HKD 800 000 – 1 500 000
WU ZUOREN (1908-1997)

Eagles Soaring above Mountains

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper

139.2 x 69.4 cm. (54 ¾ x 27 3⁄8 in.)

Entitled, inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist

Dated 1978

Dedicated to Hanxiang (Li Hanxiang, 1926-1996)





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent.



Further details

Li Hanxiang(1926-1996) studied at the Beiping National Academy of Fine Arts in his early years and learned to paint with artists such as Xu Beihong and Wu Zuoren. In 1978, he travelled to China to visit his family, friends, and teachers before heading to the US to receive medical treatments. He kept in touch with his mentor, Wu Zuoren, with whom he exchanged letters frequently after that. According to the collector, Li Hanxiang once tried to introduce a foreign doctor to treat Wu Zuoren’s eye disease but could not do so, which became Li’s lifelong regret. The painting Eagles Soaring above Mountains was gifted to Li by Wu Zuoren when they reunited in 1978, expressing the enduring friendship between the two and the artist’s most sincere blessings for Li. This work has been in the collection of the Li family for many years.
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