Flowers

LU HUI (1851-1920)
Flowers
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
167 x 31.5 cm. (65 ³⁄₄ x 12 ³⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist

NOTE:
Lu Hui, original name You Hui, otherwise known as Lianfu, Juansou, and Po Fo An Zhuren, is native to Wujiang, Jiangsu province. Lu is skilled in clerical script calligraphy and painting scenery, figures, flowers-and-birds. He is an important figure in the school of Wu. He has participated in the Shanghai Pinghua Calligraphy and Painting Society, the Yiyuan Painting Society, the Haishang Tijin Guan Jinshi Calligraphy and Painting Society, and many more.

Christie’s Swire Hong Kong, Fine 19th and 20th Century Chinese Paintings, 22 March 1993, Lot 308.

Dr Kuo is a renowned ophthalmologist in Taiwan. He was born into a family of doctors in Chiayi, Taiwan. Dr Kuo also graduated from the Taipei Medical College and served as the Chief of Ophthalmology at the Taipei Renai Hospital. His father studied Chinese and specialised in calligraphy, influencing Kuo to take an interest in Chinese culture, history and art. While practising medicine, Kuo often learned at the National Palace Museum in Taipei and began collecting paintings and calligraphy by well-known artists and celebrities and ancient artefacts. Kuo managed to build an extensive private collection, which works from it was later passed down through the family.