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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL GALLIS
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PU HUA (1832-1911)
Plum Blossoms, 1892
Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper, inscribed by the artist and
dated the tenth month of renchen, and signed Pu Hua with an artist’s
seal reading Pu Hua shi shuhua yin.
51 x 11 5/8in (129.5 x 29.5cm)

$8,000 - 12,000

蒲華 梅花 設色紙本 立軸 一八九二年作
Provenance
Shanghai International Commodity Auction Co., Ltd., 13 December
2000, lot 309
Published
Gallis, Michael and Ma Xinle, Michael Gallis Collection of Chinese
Paintings Maike Gailesi Zhongguo hua shoucang: yige Xifang xuezhe
de Zhonghua wenhua zhilu, Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2019,
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p. 133

來源
上海國際商品拍賣有限公司，2000年12月13日，拍品編號309
出版
馬欣樂主編，《邁克·蓋勒斯中國畫收藏：一個西方學者的中華文化之
旅》，天津人民美術出版社，2019年，頁133

Pu Hua was talented in calligraphy and painting, becoming a
professional artist at an early age after dropping out of the Imperial
Examination system and thus, a career as a government official.
Notorious for his carefree vagabond ways, he was known as one
of the Four Outstanding Artists of the Shanghai School with Ren
Bonian, Wu Changshuo and Xu Gu. He reached international fame
in his lifetime, traveling to Japan, where his paintings were popularly
collected. At the age of 60, the year the present painting was created,
the artist settled permanently in Shanghai.

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