Seven-character Calligraphic Couplet in Oracle Script

ZHANG BINGLIN (1868-1936)
Seven-character Calligraphic Couplet in Oracle Script
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper
Each scroll measures 136.5 x 33 cm. (53 ³⁄₄ x 13 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated October, fifteenth year (of the Republic, 1926)
Dedicated to Chun Ou

China Guardian Auctions Co., Ltd., 1994 Spring Auction – Chinese Paintings, 27 March 1994, Lot 149.

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.