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The Parke-Bernet Galleries
auction catalogue image
illustrating lot 5 in this sale,
30th-31st March 1955,
lot 301.

᱙ൡ៺䈐㌕㮌5⹧᫩ Parke-
Bernet Galleries ៺䈐ృ
䠱喑1955Ꭱ3ᰵ30㜠31ᬒ喑
㌕㮌301

The 1950s and 1960s witnessed perhaps the most fervent period of buying activity for Stephen Junkunc,
when he continued to make large acquisitions from Nagatani and Frank Caro, the successor of C.T.
Loo, as well as from Alice Boney and Warren E. Cox in New York, and Barling of Mount Street Ltd., in
London. His purchases during this decade, which sometimes involved acquiring up to 50 works at a time,
appear to have concentrated primarily on early material, including a number of acquisitions of Buddhist
sculpture, which consistently ranked amongst his most expensive purchases. Junkunc continued
purchasing and studying Chinese art until his death in 1978, whereupon the collection passed to his son
Stephen Junkunc IV and has remained in the family collection.
Throughout his lifetime, Stephen Junkunc, III worked closely with and actively supported the curators
at American museums. He retained a particularly long-standing relationship with the Art Institute of
Chicago (AIC), repeatedly loaning works from his collection to exhibitions through the 1940s-60s. Works
from the Junkunc Collection were also loaned to the seminal Ming Blue and White exhibition at The Art
Institute of Chicago, which traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1949, and to the Arts of the
T’ang exhibition of 1956, at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Junkunc’s generosity
towards American museums also extended towards bequests, with gifts from his collection now housed
in the Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin, and the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida,
near his Coral Gables summer home.

⧷㗜ٵ⩌ᄺ᫩͚స㬊㶀৮⮱⟯⛞ౕ1950ᎡАࣷ1960 ౕ⧷㗜ٵ⩌⮱ᩣ㫼͸䌜̷喑Ѓ䪤᱌ᄺ㒻స⮱ऱ๔ࢇ➖
ᎡА䖁ݝγጁምȡЃ̺ײᓋ Nagatani ࣷᑄ㭚ٸɀ 乕᣽ӈ๔߈ᩜᠮȡ䏘◧㟊ߍ਒⮱㫼უ喑Ѓ㜗♣㜴㟊ߍ
ࢎ㒲喍Ⱄ㟦呸⮱㎩Ш㔲喎㮂๔䛼ᩣ䈩喑Όᓋ㈽㈱⮱ ਒㬊㶀ࢇ➖乕䬉ӯ㋷ჳ喑͓́᫩1940ᎡА㜠1960Ꭱ
ᙈ叄㊟ɀ咽㔽ࣷ Warren E. CoxȠ՘᪓⮱ Barling of А͸䫀็⁎ܧՌ㽞็ᓰᙈ⮱㫼৮ӈڣ䓓ᆂȡ⧷㗜⣺㫼
Mount Street, Ltd ぶⴒऺऑ㦐ੳ㮂ᠮ㎹䈩䇤喑ᰶ᭯ ͚⮱㫼৮ᰫᆂ᫩㟊ߍ਒㬊㶀ࢇ➖乕᝭㜶䓓⮱Ảڤᒞ䴬
ᰰ̭⁎ᕔ䈩䇤倅䖁ρ࡮У㬊㶀৮ȡౕ䕆࡮Ꭱ⪣͚喑ٵ ߈⮱ᬻА䱿㟞⨤๔ᆂ喠䕆Ըᆂ㻪᫩1949Ꭱࣵ䑶㜠䇨
⩌᝭䇤⮱๔䘕ܳ᭜倅ऑ䪭䶋喑ڣ͚Ό࠲᠙γЃ㟞䛺䛾 ೻㬊㶀ࢇ➖乕㎩㎹ᆂ㻪ȡ䮑ₑใ喑≈ᱶ⸜₤टȠ⻾Ⴅ
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Ϻᠮ㎹䈩䇤ࣷႥ㓿͚స㬊㶀ȡ͸ᒹڣᩣ㫼⩞ڣၽट㦯 ਽А㬊㶀๔ᆂȡ⧷㗜ٵ⩌ᄺ㒻స㒻㶀乕ᚤᚕ๔᫦喑◧
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