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FROM THE COLLECTION OF SINGAPORE BAI HONG LOU MASTER TAN KENG CHEOW (CHEN JINGZHAO, 1907–1972)
新加坡百虹樓主人陳景昭先生私人收藏 (LOTS 1360-1369)

Mr. Tan Keng Cheow (1907-1972), born in 1360
Guangdong, graduated with a law degree
from Shanghai Public Jinan University and 1360
lectured in colleges and universities including
Guangzhou University. He later moved to HUANG BINHONG (1864-1955)
Singapore where he contributed further to
education as the principal of Tuan Mong Retreat in the Mountain
High School and lectured in Chung Cheng
High School. Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
90 x 48 cm. (35 ¡ x 18 √ in.)
As the son of Mr. Tan Teo Ngo, an eminent Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
calligrapher and painter, he mastered both Dated guisi year (1953)
calligraphy and painting at an early age. Mr. Tan Keng Cheow
When in Shanghai, Mr Tan studied with (Chen Jingzhao) HK$750,000-900,000 US$95,000-120,000
famous painters including Huang Binhong 陳景昭先生
and Ye Gongchuo who enlightened him tremendously. It also provided
him with a chance to appreciate great works of art.

Mr. Tan was a distinguished educator, artist and art collector. He was
the honorary chairman of the Chinese Pen Calligraphy Institution,
superintendent of the Society of Chinese Artists and influential in the
Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore. A noted collector of Huang
Binhong’s work, Mr. Tan’s vast collection of Huang’s paintings earned
his residence the name Bai Hong Lou (Hundred Huang’s Building) and
The Studio of Three Hundred Paintings. Of the three Huang Binhong
paintings illustrated in Michael Sullivan’s Chinese Art in the Twentieth
Century published in 1959, one came from the collection of Mr.Tan – a
testimony to the importance of his collection.

Nine paintings from this collection will be offered in Christie's
Exquisite Eye: Chinese Paintings Online on November 27, 2017. (Lots
1665-1673)

陳景昭（1907-1972），原籍廣東省潮安縣義龍鄉，早年畢業於上
海國立暨南大學，獲法學士學位，歷任包括廣州大學等多間大學講
師。後移居新加坡，繼續服務教育事業，出任端蒙中學校長，及中
正中學總校教席。

陳先生之父為嶺東金石書畫耆宿陳兆五先生，家學淵源，於書畫夙
具心得。當他旅學滬上時，課餘復從名家黃賓虹、葉恭綽，深得指
授，博覽名家所藏古今名迹，造詣湛深。

陳景昭是一位成功的教育家，曾為中國鋼筆書法研究所名譽所長，
及中華美術研究會監察主任；在藝術事業上是一位特出的藝術家，
收藏家。其寓所稱“百虹樓”，乃因收藏其師黃賓虹達百幅以上，
又稱“三百畫齋”。在蘇立文於1959年出版的《20世紀中國藝術與
藝術家》中，三幅黃賓虹作品其一即出自陳景昭的收藏，並刊登於
書中內頁，其藏品之精從中可見一斑。

本收藏另有九件中國近現代畫將於2017年11月27日舉行的丹青薈
萃—中國書畫網上拍賣呈現。（拍品編號1665-1673）

黃賓虹 深山幽居 設色紙本 立軸 一九五三年作

題識：黃大癡墨中有筆，倪迂筆中有墨。
墨采是韻，筆力是氣。氣韻生動，六法之要。
學者正未易至。癸巳（1953年），賓虹年九十。

鈐印：黃賓虹、冰上鴻飛館

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