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Xu Shichang (1855-1939) Bao Shaoyou (1892-1985) Wang Jiqian (1906-2002)
Ink Landscape, 1932 Plum, Bamboo and Red Birds Bamboo and Rock, 1968
Horizontal painting, mounted, ink on gold Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, titled Ink on paper adhered to back board,
paper, dated renshen chun ri (1932, spring), cuizhu youqin and signed Shaoyou with one mounted and framed, dated wushen (1968)
signed Shuizhu Cunren with one artist’s seal artist’s seal reading Shaoyou; above the and signed Jiqian with one artist’s seal
reading Shichang. painting a colophon of a poetic quatrain, reading Wang Jiqian xu.
9 3/4 x 59 1/4in (24.7 x 150.5cm) dated sanshiqi nian (minguo 37th year, or 23 1/4 x 37in (59 x 94cm) sight
$5,000 - 7,000 1948) and signed Shaoyou with two seals $6,500 - 9,000
reading Shaoyou and Shaoyou shihua.
徐世昌 水墨山水 水墨紙本 横 披 一九三二年作 26 1/8 x 12 1/2in (66.4 x 31.8cm) painting 王己千 竹石圖 水墨紙本 木框 一九六八年作
34 x 12 1/2in (86.4 x 31.8cm) painting and
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Huang Junbi (1898-1991) $2,500 - 4,000 Wang Jiqian (1906-2002)
River Landscape, 1953 Landscape, 1989
Folding fan leaf mounted for framing, ink on 鮑少游 翠竹幽禽 設色紙本 立軸 Mounted on board, framed and glazed, ink
paper, dated guisi (1953), signed Huang Junbi and color on paper, inscribed by the artist,
and with two artist’s seals reading Huang Provenance dated yisi san yue (1989, third month),
Junbi yin and Jun Weng. From a San Francisco private collection dedicated to Huiying and signed Yugong with
9 7/8 x 20 7/8in (24.5 x 53cm) one artist’s seal reading Wang Jiqian xu.
$3,000 - 5,000 A native of Zhongshan in Guangdong province, 12 5/8 x 9 3/8in (32 x 23.8cm) sight
Bao Shaoyou was born in Yokohama, Japan, $5,000 - 7,000
黄君璧 山水漁舟 水墨紙本 扇面 一九五三 and attended art school and university in
年作 Japan. Invited by Gao Jianfu to return to China 王己千 山水 設色紙本 鏡框 一九八九年作
in 1927, he taught traditional Chinese painting
Provenance in Foshan Art Academy. He moved to Hong
From a San Francisco private collection Kong in 1928 and continued teaching in the
next decades. Considered one of the pillars
of the second generation of Lingnan School
painters, Bao excelled in painting bird-and-
flower, animal, and landscape works.

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