Name: HUANG YONGYU (1924-2023)
Brand: The River Wells in Spring
Price: 260000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

HUANG YONGYU (1924-2023)
The River Wells in Spring
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
96.2 x 88.4 cm. (37 ⁷⁄₈ x 34 ³⁄₄ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated yichou year (1985)

Acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent.

Contemporary Chinese Painting, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 66.

Hong Kong, City Hall, The Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Paintings, 9-14 May 1986.

The current owner’s father is an Italian-Chinese who travelled to Italy in the 1980s to study film and theatre. He was dedicated to promoting cultural exchanges and international cooperation between Italy and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The present owner’s father met Huang Yongyu at an art exhibition, and they developed a lasting friendship, visiting each other in Italy and China. According to the present owner, the lot was a gift from the artist to his father during Huang’s solo exhibition in Rome in 1986.

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