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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HONG KONG COLLECTION
香港私人收藏 (LOT 1554)
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WU GONGHU (1904-1977)
Tiger
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
77 x 67 cm. (30 ¡ x 26 ¡ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated spring, gengxu year (1970)
One collector’s seal in commemoration of Tung Wah Hospital
Centennial
NOTE:
The present work was purchased for HK$80,000 by the current
collector in 1970 during Tung Wah Hospital’s Centennial fundraising
campaign, and remained in his collection for several decades.
HK$10,000-20,000 US$1,300-2,600
吳公虎 虎威 設色紙本 立軸 一九七〇年作
題識：庚戌（1970）年春，公虎作。
鈐印：吳公虎、虎虎有生氣
鑑藏印：東華三院百週年紀念
註：藏家為虎年人士，於東華三院70年代百週年募捐運動時，為回
謝東華，捐款八萬港元並奪得此畫虎大師作品保存數十年至今。
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