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YU YOUREN (1879-1964)
Moral Restructuring
Scroll, mounted for framing, ink on paper
39 æ x 19 1/16 in. (101 x 48.5 cm.)
Signed, with one seal of the artist
$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE
Gift from the artist to the collector in the
late 1950s, and thence by descent within the
family.

The inscriptions of the present lot,
“absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute
unselfshness and absolute benevolence,” are
the four tenets of a social and moral reform
in Taiwan originated in the late 1940s. The
collector of the present lot was a strong
supporter and participant of the movement
during his lifetime. Although Yu Youren
was not directly involved in the movement
himself, he identifed with its mission
statements, and therefore bequeathed the
present lot to the collector, who was a close
friend of his, to commemorate the collector’s
many years of service and devotion to the
movement.
于右任 書法 水墨紙本 鏡片
題識：道德重整。絕對誠實，絕對純潔，
絕對無私，絕對仁愛。于右任。
鈐印：右任
來源：本拍品為藝術家於1950年代晚期贈
予原藏家，後由家族傳承至今。
註：「絕對誠實，絕對純潔，絕對無私，
絕對仁愛」為1940年代晚期在臺灣興起的
道德重整運動之四原則。本拍品藏家生前
爲此運動之活躍成員，畢生推廣其理念不
遺餘力。于右任本人雖未曾親身參與此運
動，但極認同其宗旨，加上藝術家與藏家
私交甚篤，故題此贈與藏家留念。

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