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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF YAN YUNTAI 嚴雲泰珍藏 (LOTS 84-92)

This collection of Chinese modern paintings was 84
assembled by Yan Yuntai (Anthony Yen) and his father
Yan Qingxiang (1899-1988). The elder Mr. Yan was a WU HUFAN (1894-1968)
successful owner and manager of Da Long Steel and Iron Landscape in the Style of Shitao
Works in Shanghai before 1949. During and after the
Cultural Revolution, Mr. Yan took up his attention to Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on paper
the arts. He took up calligraphy and traditional painting, 11 x 7 º in. (28 x 18.3 cm.)
and through the teachers he sought out, he developed Entitled, inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
relationships with an extended circle of painters and
calligraphers. Recognizing the diffcult circumstances The painting by Wu Hufan was gifted to Yan Yuntai
that most of these artists experienced in the 1950s and by his father Yan Qingxiang. Yan Yuntai recalls that his
1960s, Mr Yan created a “salon” to welcome these talented father was acquainted with Wu Hufan and that this was
individuals. They recited poetry in the garden, exchanged obtained directly from the artist.
ideas, and hung their work in the living room, dining
room, and center hall of the Yan family home at 699 Yu 吳湖帆 雲山蕭寺 設色紙本 鏡片
Yuan Road. 題識：雲山蕭寺。仿大滌子真蹟未能似也，醜簃吳
Anthony Yen left Shanghai alone in 1949 at the young age 湖帆。
of 17 and made his way to the United States. There he 鈐印：梅景書屋
built a distinguished career as an expert in international 註：這幅畫是嚴慶祥留給嚴雲泰的。根據嚴雲泰的
business and trade. Sharing his father’s dedication to 回憶，嚴慶祥與吳湖帆結識，并直接從藝術家本人
China’s traditional arts, Mr. Yen also acquired and 手中得入此作。
treasured paintings from the artists he met during his visits
back to China beginning in 1980. LING XI (20TH CENTURY)
Peony
這一系列中國現代繪畫藏品由嚴雲泰（Anthony Yen）與 Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on silk
父親嚴慶祥（1899-1988）收集。在1937年日本入侵之前， 17 x 16 √ in. (43 x 42.8 cm.)
嚴慶祥是上海成功的企業家，1949年前曾擔任上海鋼鐵 Signed, with one seal of the artist
集團公司經理。當戰亂時期飽受精神折磨的他再次恢復
一些平靜之後，他將注意力轉向了藝術 。他開始研習書 靈犀 牡丹 設色絹本 鏡片
法與國畫，並通過他的老師結交了很多畫家以及書法大 款識：靈犀。
師。認識到這些藝術家在20世紀50年代和60年代間面臨 鈐印：靈犀
沈重的經濟壓力，嚴慶祥創辦了“沙龍”，來歡迎這些有
才華的人 。他們在位於699愚園路家中的花園裡吟詩，在 FAN REN’AN (BORN 1916)
客廳、飯廳和中心大廳展覽和交流討論他們的作品。 Flowers and Bamboo
1949年，17歲的嚴雲泰孤身離開了上海來到美國，成為了 Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on paper
一位傑出的國際商務貿易專家。如父親嚴慶祥一樣，他鍾 26 ¬ x 13 æ in. (67.7 x 34.8 cm.)
愛中國書畫，並珍藏了許多從1980年回到中國期間他所認 Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
識的藝術家作品。 Dated jiwei year (1979)
Further inscribed by the artist
Dedicated to Jiachen (David Yen) (3)

$30,000-60,000

(from left) Mi Gengyun, Yan Qingxiang, Fan Ren’an, Tian Huan, and This lot consists of three paintings.
Shen Maishi at Yan Qingxiang’s 80th birthday celebration
范韌庵 蘭竹圖 設色紙本 鏡片 一九七九年作
（左起）糜耕雲，嚴慶祥，范靭庵，田桓與沈邁士在嚴慶祥80嵗祝壽宴會 題識：歲在己未（1979年）新秋之月。韌庵寫此於
豫園綺藻堂之南廡。
鈐印：訒庵書畫
又題：頃以嘉辰世講先生於國省親，因舉以奉正。
韌庵。
鈐印：范韌庵印、丙辰生

註：編號84包涵三件拍品。

84 FINE CHINESE PAINTINGS