Plantain and Rock

Name: WEN QIQIU (1862-1941) AND CAI SHOU (1879-1941)
Brand: Plantain and Rock
Price: 16000.00 HKD
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WEN QIQIU (1862-1941) AND CAI SHOU (1879-1941)

Plantain and Rock

Price Realised HKD 20,000

Closed: 25 Nov 2019

Price Realised HKD 20,000

Closed: 25 Nov 2019

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WEN QIQIU (1862-1941) AND CAI SHOU (1879-1941)
Plantain and Rock

Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
41 x 29 cm. (16 ¹⁄₈ x 11 ³⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with a total of three seals of the artists
Dedicated to Xiayi (Huang Xiayi, 1885-1943)
Titleslip inscribed
NOTE: Wen Qiqiu, a native of Shunde, Guangdong Province, who styled himself as Youju, was one of the founders of the Guangdong Chinese Painting Research Association. In the Guangzhou art circle, he was an acknowledged artist in the landscape, flower-and-bird, and figure painting.
Cai Shou, a native of Shunde, Guangdong Province, who styled himself as Hanqiong, was a member of the Conservative of the National Studies. He had a good relationship with the literati in Guangdong as well as the members of the National government and had participated in the examination of the ancient epigraph, calligraphy, and paintings of the Palace Museum.

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Lot Essay

Huang Xiayi (1885-1943), a native of Dongguan, Guangdong province, was an important and well-known revolutionary in Chinese modern history. He joined Tongmenghui with his like-minded friends such as Lin Zhimian (1888-1934) and was involved in the Guangzhou New Army Uprising and Yellow Flower Mound Uprising, among others. After the founding of the Republic of China, he was appointed the first county mayor of Dongguan County. He was later appointed Director of the Guangdong Provincial Taxation Bureau, Fujian Provincial Tobacco and Liquor Tax Director, and the 19th Route Army Major General. At the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Huang returned to Dongguan. In 1943, he died in an airstrike launched by Japanese during an inspection in Shaoguan, Guangdong.
Intellectuals frequently interacted with artists during the early period of the Republic. Many intellectuals participated in creating and collecting Chinese paintings and calligraphy, and Huang was one of them. In 1924 and 1925, the Guihai Cooperative Painting Society was formed by leading artists of the Lingnan region and held two fundraising exhibitions to promote and study traditional Chinese painting. These two exhibitions presented approximately 800 works including around 200 collaborative works.
Some of the works offered here were likely purchased from the abovementioned exhibitions. They allow us to witness the development of traditional Chinese painting in the Lingnan region during the early 20th century. They also represent extraordinary aesthetic value and historical significance.