Calligraphy

Name: YU YOUREN (1879-1964)
Brand: Calligraphy
Price: 30000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised HKD 37,500

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HKD 30,000 - HKD 50,000

Closed: 27 May 2019

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YU YOUREN (1879-1964)

Calligraphy

Price Realised HKD 37,500

Closed: 27 May 2019

Price Realised HKD 37,500

Closed: 27 May 2019

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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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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 .