Flying a Kite

Name: WEN YONGCHEN (1922-1995)
Brand: Flying a Kite
Price: 30000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised HKD 37,500

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HKD 10,000 - HKD 15,000

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WEN YONGCHEN (1922-1995)

Flying a Kite

Price Realised HKD 37,500

WEN YONGCHEN (1922-1995)
Flying a Kite

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
48 x 77.5 cm. (18 ⁷⁄₈ x 30 ¹⁄₂ in.)
With two seals of the artist
Further inscribed and signed by Zhao Shao'ang, with two seals of the artist
Dated jiwei year (1979)
Further inscribed and signed in miniature script
Dated summer, 1988

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Lot Essay

Wen Yongchen was a Hong Kong artist who specialised in painting butterflies and children, as well as calligraphy. He created particularly charming images of children flying kites. What appears to be the string of the kite is in fact miniature calligraphy written by the artist, sometimes even including English text. Similarly, on his paintings of butterflies the antennae are also miniature calligraphy.