HONG YI (1880-1942)
Calligraphy in Running Script
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
82 x 22 cm. (32 ¹⁄₄ x 8 ⁵⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
With titleslip

Acquired directly from the artist, hence by descent.

Buddhist Association of China, ed., Master Hong Yi, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, October 1984, pl. 13.
Hongyi Dashi Yimo, Huaxia Publishing House, Beijing, June 1987, p.9.

The collection belongs to descendants of an influential and progressive intellectual that lived in 20th-century China. He surrounded himself with other intellectuals and thinkers, including but not limited to the artists that make up the collection. All the works were directly gifted from the artists or his intellectual friends, and were kept in the family for nearly one century.

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