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ZENG XI (1861-1930) JOHN WAY (WEI LETANG, 1921-2012)
Couplet in Running script Calligraphy in Northern Wei Style Script, 1980
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on gold-flecked red paper, with one Hanging scroll, ink on paper, comprising part of the text of the Cuan
dedication, signed Nongran Zeng Xi, with three seals of the artist Bao Zi stele (404), dated gengshen year (1980), inscribed and signed
Zeng Xi zhiyin, Nongran, and xin taiping an xi. Wei Letang, with one seal of the artist reading Wei Letang.
80 x 17in (203 x 43cm) each scroll 53 1/8 x 27in (135 x 68cm)
$3,000 - 5,000 $1,500 - 2,500

曾熙 行書七言聯 水墨灑金箋 立軸一對 魏樂堂 臨《爨寶子碑》 水墨紙本 立軸 一九八〇年作

Provenance Provenance
Formerly on long term loan at the Honolulu Art Academy Formerly on long term loan at the Honolulu Art Academy

Exhibited
Taipei National Museum of History, 1981

Wei Letang (John Way) was born in Shanghai, but relocated to
Hong Kong after 1949. Later immigrating to the United States, he
eventually settled in San Francisco in the 1990’s. Widely praised for
his abstract compositions of oil on canvas or paper, the artist also
received accolades for his calligraphy. In 2001 his work was featured
in a solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum.
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