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Ding Yanyong (1902-1978) Ye Qianyu (1907-1995)
Opera Figures, 1978 Dancer
Ink and color on paper, mounted for framing, Hanging scroll, ink on paper, signed Qianyu with one artist’s seal reading Qianyu su xie.
inscribed with a poetic couplet, dated wuwu 13 1/2 x 8 1/2in (33.7 x 21.6cm)
(1978) and signed Ding Yanyong with one $4,000 - 6,000
pictorial seal of the artist.
27 3/8 x 18 1/4in (69.5 x 46.3cm) 葉淺予 舞者 水墨紙本 立軸
$4,000 - 6,000
Provenance
丁衍庸 霸王别 姬 設色紙本 鏡片 一九七八年作 On long term loan to the Birmingham Museum of Art until 2014
Provenance Property from the Estate of Feng-Hwa Mah, Seattle, Washington
Acquired directly from the artist by the original
owner Lin Nien-tung (Lin Niantong, 林年同, 7364
1944-1990), thereafter by descent Pu Ru (1896-1963)
Rocky Landscape with Pavilions
7362 An album leaf, ink and color on paper, framed and glazed, inscribed, signed Xinyu, with three
Ding Yanyong (1902-1978) artist’s seals reading cao tang, xishan yishi and Pu Ru.
Zhong Kui and Demons in a Boat, 1978 12 1/4 x 15 1/2in (30 x 39.3cm)
Ink and color on paper, mounted for framing, $9,000 - 12,000
inscribed, dedicated to Niantong, dated
wuwu (1978) and signed Ding Yanyong with 溥儒 范華原峰圖 水墨紙本 鏡框
one pictorial seal of the artist.
27 3/8 x 19in (69.5 x 48.3cm) Feng-hwa Mah (Ma Fenghua 馬逢華, 1922-2013) was a scholar of economics as well as
$5,000 - 7,000 a modern literatus and poet. Born in the city of Kaifeng in Henan province, Mah studied
economics at National Peking University and the University of Michigan. From 1961 to 1987,
丁衍庸 鍾逵渡江圖 設色紙本 鏡片 一九七八 he taught economics at the University of Washington, Seattle, retiring in 1987 with the title
年作 of Professor Emeritus. Mah authored many articles on the Chinese economy and published
two books on China’s foreign trade in 1963 and 1971. Mah also published two collections of
Provenance literary essays in 1993 and 2007, as well as a memoir in 2011 detailing his early days of study
Acquired directly from the artist by the original in Beijing and his later life as an émigré scholar. He hosted many of his fellow literati such as
owner Lin Nien-tung (Lin Niantong, 林年同, Shen Congwen (1902-1988) and Liang Shiqiu (1903-1987) during their visits to the United
1944-1990), thereafter by descent States. Such meetings were the impetus for the creation of the majority of the calligraphy
works and paintings in Mah’s collection that are being offered in this auction.
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