Page 33 - Bonhams May 22, 2019 Asia Art Sydney

From a Private Collection, Sydney
悉尼私人收藏
Lot 99 to 102

99
CHEN WEN HSI (1906-1991)
Squirrels
Ink and colour on paper, framed
Signed Wen Hsi, with two seals of the artist
132.0 x 33.5cm
$10,000 - 15,000
Provenance:
Possibly directly from Chen Wen Hsi's Old & New Gallery
Private collection, Sydney, acquired in Melbourne in the late 1980s

The current owner has retained an old valuation, though the current lot
is not listed, signed by Dr Chen Siew-Min, son of Chen Wen Hsi, and
issued by The Old & New Gallery dated 1 February 1972, the year Chen
Wen Hsi established this gallery in the Tanglin Shopping Centre.

Chen was known to keep his favourite pets in this gallery, such as
gibbons and squirrels, for live drawing and these subjects consequently
became his most sought-after works such as this current lot.

陳文希 松鼠 設色紙本 鏡心
款識：文希記
鈐印：陳氏
傳承：
或直接來源於陳文西的 Old and New Gallery
悉尼私人收藏，八十年代末期購於墨爾本
藏家至今保存著一份1972年2月1日由 The Old & New Gallery 出據的書
畫估價單，簽署人為 Chen Siew-Min 博士（陳文希子）。
1972年乃是陳文希於 Tanglin 購物中心建立 Old and New Gallery 的第
一年。雖然是畫未被列於清單中，但個中來源可推一二。
據傳陳文希在畫廊中更養著自己最心愛的寵物，例如猿猴、松鼠等，後
來也成為市場上陳文希最受追捧的作品題材。

99
64 | BONHAMS FINE ASIAN ART | 65