FENG KANGHOU (1901-1983) / XIAO LISHENG (1919-1983)
Four-character Calligraphic Couplet in Seal Script / Lady
A pair of hanging scrolls / scroll, mounted for framing, ink on paper / ink and colour on paper
FENG KANGHOU (1901-1983)
Four-character Calligraphic Couplet in Seal Script
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper
Each scroll measures 112 x 19.5 cm. (44 ¹⁄₈ x 7 ⁵⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated winter, twelfth month, gengyin year (1950)
Dedicated to Master of Legengyuan (He Xiufeng)
LITERATURE:
Cloud, Smoke, Scattered Memories, The Memoir of Ho Mang Hang, China Times Publishing Co., Taipei, 2019, p. 196.
NOTE: Legengyuan was the name of the family flower farm in Hong Kong of He Xiufeng and Ho Mang Hang.

XIAO LISHENG (1919-1983)
Lady
Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and colour on paper
42 x 34.5 cm. (16 ¹⁄₂ x 13 ⁵⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated autumn, yisi year (1965)
Dedicated to Yinlu

NOTE:
He Xiufeng (1898-1970), Born in Zhongshan, Guangdong, was the father of Ho Mang Hang, and a famous seal carver and collector. He worked under Wang Jingwei and helped published Poetry of Shuangzhaolou.

Cloud, Smoke, Scattered Memories, The Memoir of Ho Mang Hang, China Times Publishing Co., Taipei, 2019, p. 196. (Feng Kanghou)

Wang Jingwei remains one of the most fascinating and complex political and literary figures in modern Chinese history. As a revolutionary, Wang played an important role in the fall of the Qing dynasty and called for democratic and social reforms during the 1920s and the 1930s, before becoming a leader of the Peace Movement during the Second Sino-Japanese War. An accomplished calligrapher, poet, writer and friend to many artists, Wang is also well-known for his collection of poetry, titled Shuangzhaolou shicigao, including Xiaoxiuji (A Little Rest) and Saoyeji (Brush Leaves) collections. A selection of poems and translation has been published in Poems of Wang Ching-wei (London, Allen & Unwin, 1938).