Name: WEN YONGCHEN (1922-1995)
Brand: Guanyin
Price: 35000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

WEN YONGCHEN (1922-1995)
Guanyin

Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
90.5 x 51.5 cm. (35 ⅝ x 20 ¼ in.)
Entitled and signed, with four seals of the artist
Further inscribed in minute script by the artist, with one seal
Dated 1989
Further inscribed and signed by the artist, with two seals
Dated spring, gengwu year (1990)
Frontispiece entitled and signed

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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.