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PROPERTY FROM THE CHAMBER OF YOUNG SNOW COLLECTION 少雪齋珍藏 (LOTS 1045-1047)

1047
PU RU (1896-1963)
Landscape for Li Xuangong
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
70.2 x 27.9 cm. (27 ¬ x 11 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated eleventh month, guiyou year (1933)
Dedicated to Mochao (Li Xuangong)
One collector’s seal
NOTE:
The recipient Mochao was Li Xuangong (1867-1953), a native of
Fujian province and a poet from the Republic era.
He shared a close friendship with Pu Ru and once published his
collection of Pu Ru’s works named The Xishan Yiren Painting
Collection in 1939. Known also for his collection of Yi Bingshou’s
works, Pu Ru inscribed on the painting “the studio is for collecting
Yi Moqing’s calligraphy and paintings.”
HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000
溥儒 墨巢圖 設色紙本 立軸 一九三三年作

題識： 墨巢居士屬作《墨巢圖》，用藏伊墨卿書畫。
癸酉（1933年）十一月寫此，恐不足當雅意耳，溥儒。
鈐印：一壺之中、遠性風疏、頫仰之間
鑑藏印：少雪齋
註：上款人“墨巢居士”為民國時期詩人李宣龔（1867-1953），字
拔可，福建閩縣人。李氏與溥心畬交誼甚厚，1939年曾將其收藏溥
氏作品結集出版《西山逸士畫集》。
李氏喜好收藏，除溥心畬作品外，尤以藏伊秉綬為多，故本幅畫題
中有“用藏伊墨卿書畫”之謂。

FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF LU HSIEN
呂咸舊藏 (LOTS 1048-1050)

These paintings are dedicated to Lu Hsien (1888-1960), also known
as Zhuoqing. Lu held many key positions in the Ministry of Industry,
Commerce and Labour and the Central Bank of the Republic of China
before moving to Taiwan after 1949. Lu enjoyed painting and collecting
and was very well-connected within the art, literati and political circles.
Amongst his artist friends, Lu was especially close to Zhang Daqian and
Yu Fei’an.

呂咸（1888-1960），字著青，北京人。曾任國民政府工商部參事，
中央銀行國庫局長等職，1949年後移居臺灣。呂氏熱愛書畫藝術，
擅於書畫，亦喜收藏，廣納政界、文人及藝壇名家之丹青墨跡，並
與張大千、于非闇等書畫家交往密切。
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