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LOT 1223
PREVIOUSLY FROM A PRIVATE

JAPANESE COLLECTION

1223

HUANG ZHOU (1925-1997)

Walking UnderWillow

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and
colour on paper
134 x 68 cm. (52 Æ x 26 Æ in.)
Signed, with two seals of the artist

PROVENANCE:

Lot 1589, 26-27 May 2014, Fine Chinese Modern
Paintings, Christie’s Hong Kong.

NOTE:

Born in 1944, the original Japanese collector, Murata
Yoshitaka, is a Japanese politician and a member of the
China–Japan Friendship Parliamentarians’ Union. A
very close friend of Huang Zhou, he was involved in the
sale and marketing of the artist’s works in Japan and they
corresponded with each other often. Murata was at the
bedside of Huang Zhou in his final days.

HK$2,000,000-3,000,000
US$260,000-390,000

2014 5 26-27
1589

1944

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Letter of appointment from the Huang
Zhou Museum to Murata Yoshitaka

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