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ANONYMOUS, AFTER TANG YIN (QING ANONYMOUS, AFTER TANG YIN (LATE
238 DYNASTY OR LATER) MING DYNASTY)
96 | BONHAMS Tiger and Pine Tree Lady and attendants
Ink on paper, with an inscription and Ink and pigment on silk, inscribed Tang Yin,
signature, and one red seal, framed and framed and glazed.
glazed. 112cm (40 1/8in) x 187cm (73 5/8in) 48cm (18 7/8in) x 107cm (42 1/8in)

£2,000 - 3,000 £1,500 - 2,000
CNY19,000 - 29,000 CNY15,000 - 19,000
HK$24,000 - 35,000 HK$18,000 - 24,000
Provenance Provenance
Dr. Werner Muensterberge (label) Purchased from John Sparks Ltd. on 21 June
Exhibited 1943 (facsimile of receipt and label).
Hebert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell
University (label)

Werner Muensterberge (1913-2011) was
born in Dortmund and was exposed to
Chinese, African and European Modern
Art at an early age through a long standing
acquaintance with Baron Eduard von der
Heydt. Fleeing Nazi Germany in the late
1930s he continued his Art History studies in
Switzerland before moving to Amsterdam and
becoming a curator at the Stedelijk Museum.
From 1947 he taught ethno-psychoanalysis
at Columbia University, finally becoming
a professor at New York State University.
Muensterberge wrote several influential books
including Forgers on the Couch in which he
psychoanalyzed historical and contemporary
forgers including Han Van Meegeren.