Butterflies

Price Realised HKD 27,500

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HKD 10,000 - HKD 20,000

Closed: 27 May 2019

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WU YISHENG (1929-2009)

Butterflies

Price Realised HKD 27,500

Closed: 27 May 2019

Price Realised HKD 27,500

Closed: 27 May 2019

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WU YISHENG (1929-2009)
Butterflies

Album, ink and colour on paper
Full painting measures 16.5 x 190 cm. (6½ x 74¾ in.)
One leaf signed by the artist, with three seals
Dated spring, wuwu year (1978)
Titleslip entitled, inscribed and signed by Chen Jinghong (1903-1993), with one seal

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Lot Essay

Wu Yisheng, a native of Taishan, Guangdong, is an expert at flowers-and-birds, landscape and figure painting. He is a master of painting peacocks. In the 1960s, he founded the Yisheng studio to teach painting and immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1984.
Chen Jinghong, a native of Shunde, Guangdong, lived in Shanghai when he was young and studied calligraphy under Kang Youwei (1858-1927). He has the reputation of “the three talents of Lingnan” with Huang Shaoqiang (1900-1942) and Zhao Shao’ang (1905-1998).