Landscape / Chan

C. C. WANG (WANG JIQIAN, 1907-2003)
Landscape / Chan
A pair of scrolls, mounted on cardboard, ink and colour on paper
Each scroll measures 26.5 x 23.8 cm. (10 ³⁄₈ x 9 ³⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with a total of two seals of the artist

PROVENANCE:
Gift from the artist in 1978, and thence by descent.

NOTE:
This lot is accompanied by a hanging scroll of seal impressions by C. C. Wang, and a letter from C. C. Wang to Walter Hahn dated 16 May 1978. Walter Hahn (1927-2017) was an innovative and renowned artist, who was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1955 for his oil paintings. In the 1950s, he became deeply interested in and inspired by Asian art, studying traditional calligraphy and painting, and exhibiting internationally as a maker of tea scoops for the Japanese Tea Ceremony (Chashaku). Mr. Hahn travelled extensively throughout Asia and was among the first Americans to travel to China as a member of a U.S. artistic delegation. He befriended many artists, visited art institutions, and built an extensive collection of Chinese classical and contemporary paintings. In New York, he was a student of C.C. Wang and friends with Wang Fangyu, among others.