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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品 162
Lots 161 - 162 ZHU QIZHAN (1892-1996)
Gourds, 1974
161 Ink and colour on paper, inscribed and signed Qizhan with three seals
CUI ZIFAN (1915-2011) of the artist, framed and glazed.
Lotus, 1985 69cm x 66cm (27 1/4in x 26in).
Ink and pigment on paper, inscribed by the artist and dated Yichou (1985),
signed Zifan with one artist’s seal reading Cui Zifan, framed and glazed.
101cm x 52.5cm (39 3/4in x 20 3/4in). £2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
£3,000 - 4,000
CNY27,000 - 35,000 1974年 朱屺瞻(1892-1996年) 葫蘆 設色紙本 鏡框裝裱

1985年 崔子範(1915-2011年) 香遠益清 設色紙本 鏡框裝裱 Provenance: an English private collection
乙丑歲 子范
來源：英國私人收藏
Provenance: an English private collection
Zhu Qizhan is heralded today as one of China’s foremost modern
來源：英國私人收藏 artists, with a museum dedicated to his art in Shanghai. His works can
also be found in the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan
Cui Zifan was one of the leading modern masters of the Chinese Museum of Art in New York. In 1918 he went to study in Japan, where
Expressionist school of ink painting (da xieyi). He was born in Shandong he discovered the post-Impressionist painters Vincent van Gogh and
Province to a family of farmers, but as a child he was drawn to
calligraphy and painting. Although his family was so impoverished that Paul Cézanne, and the vibrant works of Matisse. He returned to China
they could not afford art materials, he practiced on slate with chalk. In to teach at the Shanghai Art Academy and established the Moshe Art
1940, he was studying at Yan’an and by 1956 he was General Secretary Society with the painter Xu Beihong. With the establishment of the
of the Academy of Painting in Beijing where Qi Baishi was honorary People’s Republic of China in 1949, Zhu turned to traditional Chinese
president. Compare with a similar painting of red lotus by Cui Zifan, painting, travelling to the countryside and drawing workers in the fields
1981, which was sold at Bonhams New York, 13 March 2017, lot 2100. and in the factories.

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