Endless Mountains

Details

RAO ZONGYI (BORN 1917)
Endless Mountains
Handscroll, ink on paper
Painting measures 29.8 x 119.7 cm. (11 3/4 x 47 1/8 in.)
Frontispiece measures 29.8 x 79.8 cm. (11 3/4 x 31 1/2 in.)
Colophon measures approximately 29.8 x 69 cm. (11 3/4 x 27 1/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dedicated to Dekun
Frontispiece and colophon inscribed by the artist, with a total of three seals
Colophon dated summer, yisi year (1965)

Provenance

Sotheby’s London, The Mu-Fei Collection of Chinese Paintings, 7 November 2007, Part of lot 69.
Christie’s Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Modern Paintings, 29 May 2012, Lot 3181.
Collection of Tathata Gallery.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

The recipient of this painting should be Professor Zheng Dekun (1907-2001), first generation Chinese archaeologist. After receiving his PhD from Harvard University, he went on to teach in the University of Cambridge and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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