Name: WEN YONGCHEN (1922-1995)
Brand: Flying a Kite
Price: 48000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

WEN YONGCHEN (1922-1995)
Flying a Kite

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
83 x 155.5 cm. (32 ⁵⁄₈ x 61 ¹⁄₄ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with six seals of the artist
Dated spring, wuchen year (1988)
Microscopic calligraphy by the artist
Dated April, 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.