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Fig. 10 Ding Yanyong, Nude with Kitten. Collection of Mok E-Den, Lot 2502

Hong Kong. Aesthetic Images of Ding Yanyong's Paintings,

National History Museum, Taipei, August 2003, p.290.
圖 10 丁衍庸 《裸女與小貓》 香港莫一點藏品
《意像 之 美：丁衍 庸 的 繪 畫 藝 術》，國 立 歷 史 博 物 館，台 北，2 0 0 3 年，第 2 9 0頁。

holding a Taoist fly-brush and a sword on his back; peach and lives on powered mother-of-pearl and
moonbeams, and holds a stalk of lotus as her emblem.
CAO GUOJIU - believed to be the son of military
commander Cao Bin, and wears a court head-dress This well-loved and traditional subject matter has been
and official robes while holding a pair of castanets, the source of inspiration for artists experimenting in a
making him the patron saint of the theatre arts; variety of medium, from paintings, ceramics, cloisonné
work to ivory. Ding injected a fresh and energetic
LI TIEGUAI - usually depicted as a beggar with an air to this age old subject matter, using free-flowing
iron staff and a pilgrim's gourd, because his disciple, lines to sketch out the figures, deftly executed at a
believing his master to be dead while his spirit was fast pace, with confident strokes and dots to endow
visiting the celestial regions, burned Li's body and after the figures with a sense of child-like playfulness.
Li's return he had to enter the body of a nearby beggar;
A significant, representative work from Ding's later period,
HAN XIANGZI - the nephew of scholar Han Yu, is Eight Immortals reflects the artist's keen interest in folklore
said to possess the power to make flowers grow and traditional operas with a fresh visual language of
and blossom on command, and his emblem is the freedom executed in the age-old medium of ink. With vivid
flute, as he is the benefactor of musicians; colours and expressively animated figures, Eight Immortals
is a superb testimony to what makes Ding Yanyong a
LAN CAIHE - usually described as a man dressed in a true pioneer in the art history of 20th century China.
blue gown, who waves a wand while begging through
the streets chanting verses, and holds a flower-basket
emblem which makes him the patron saint of florists;

HE XIANGU - the daughter of shopkeeper Lingling, is
said to have gained immortality by eating the supernatural

Fig. 5 Fig. 5 (圖 5) Fig. 9 (圖 9)
Lot 908, Bada Shanren (1626-1705), Egret on Rock, Fine
Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligrahy , Christie's Hong
Kong, 30 November, 2015, . Sold for HKD19,160,000
圖 5 八大山人，《鷺石圖》，香港佳士得，中國古代書畫，2015
年 11月3 0日，編 號 9 0 8，成 交 價：港 幣 19 ,16 0 , 0 0 0

Fig. 9 Ding Yanyong, Opera Characters. The Painting Album of Ting
Yin Yung, E-Den Studio, Hong Kong, February 1995, pl.94.
丁衍庸 《武打人物》
圖 9《丁衍庸書畫集》，一點畫室，香港，1995年2月，圖版94。

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