Lot 1623
Lot 1623
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YU YOUREN (1879-1964)

Calligraphy

Price Realised HKD 37,500
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HKD 30,000 - HKD 50,000
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YU YOUREN (1879-1964)

Calligraphy

Price Realised HKD 37,500
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Price Realised HKD 37,500
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YU YOUREN (1879-1964)
Calligraphy

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on paper
68.5 x 33.5 cm. (27 x 13¼ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dedicated to Ishihara Akira (1924-1980)
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Lot Essay

Accompanied with a letter from Li Shuyou (1913-?) to Ishihara Akira.
The recipient of this work is Ishihara Akira, a well-known practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Japanese and participated in the founding of the Japan Society for Oriental Medicine. He wrote many books about Chinese medicine for researching and education. According to the letter from Li Shuyou to Ishihara Akira, Li invited Yu Youren, the then-president of the Control Yuan of the Republic of China, to write the work as a gift to Ishihara Akira. Li was also a well-known practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, whose clinical researches in both traditional Chinese and Western medicine are outstanding. He wrote a medicine book Lian Yuan Yi Ji.

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