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PROPERTY PREVIOUSLY IN THE COLLECTION OF LISA LU AND SHELLING HWONG (LOTS 1235-1236)Lisa Lu is a Chinese-American actress and producer who has lived and worked between Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and America. She is a three-time winner of the Golden Horse Award, and also an accomplished performer of traditional Chinese opera. Her most notable film titles include Wayne Wang’s The Joy Luck Club and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor. Lu’s husband, Shelling Hwong, is from Zhaoqing in Guangdong. He graduated from the diplomatic programme at National Chengchi University, with a first posting in 1947 to the Republic of China’s Consulate General in Honolulu. In 1955, he took up a teaching post in US Defence Department Language Centre, later relocating to California. When Lisa Lu and Shelling Hwang lived in Los Angeles, they met Zhang Daqian who was also living in California at the time. They would often see each other at gatherings among Chinese social groups. Later, when Zhang moved to Taiwan, his relationship with Hwang became even closer, as Hwang’s diplomatic work would often lead him to bring foreign friends to visit the artist’s studio, the Abode of Illusion.This collection of paintings was gifted to Lisa Lu and Shelling Hwang when Zhang Daqian lived in his California studio, Huanbi’an. Billowing Lotus is a refined and elegant, being representative of its recipient, Lisa Lu, while Scholar on the Mountain, gifted to Shelling Hwang, has a novel composition of a literati. The two works, with their aesthetic essence and same sizes, are true artistic complements to one another.
ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Scholar on the Mountain
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ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Scholar on the Mountain
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
138 x 70 cm. (54 3/8 x 27 ½ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with five seals of the artist
Dated spring, guichou year (1973)
Dedicated to Xilin (Shelling Hwong)
Scholar on the Mountain
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
138 x 70 cm. (54 3/8 x 27 ½ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with five seals of the artist
Dated spring, guichou year (1973)
Dedicated to Xilin (Shelling Hwong)
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