Lot 323
  • 323

Li Keran (1907-1989)

Estimate
2,800,000 - 4,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Li Keran (1907-1989)
  • MOUNT JIUHUA
  • ink and colour on paper, framed
signed KERAN, dated April 1979, spring, inscribed, and with three seals of the artist

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, Chinese Paintings Sale, October 1991, Lot 79

Exhibited

Hong Kong Art Museum, Artists and Art: Contemporary Chinese Paintings, November 24, 1989 to January 7, 1990

Taipei, National Museum of History, The World of Li Keran, November 3 to December 5, 2000

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, The World of Li Keran, December 15, 2000 to March 18, 2001

Beijing, National Art Museum of China, A Century of Li Keran: Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of Li Keran's Birth, November 4 to14, 2007

Literature

On Li Keran's Paintings, compiled by Wang Zhuo, Hua Cheng Publishing Co., Taipei, February 1987, pl. 51

Artists and Art: Contemporary Chinese Paintings, Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 27

Artists, issue No. 71, Artists Publishing House, Hong Kong, December 1989, p. 39

Han Mo 25 — Special Study on Authentication of Li Keran's Paintings, Han Mo Xuan Publishing Co. Ltd., February 1992, p. 41

Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years (1973-1993), Sotheby's & Woods Publishing Company, 1993, pl. 686

The World of Li Keran, written by Wan Qingli, Shi Jh Tang Press Co. Ltd., Taipei, November 2000, pl. 61

A Century of Li Keran: Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of Li Keran's Birth, Exhibition Catalogue, Jilin Fine Arts Press, October 2007, pl. 77

A Century of Li Keran: Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of Li Keran's Birth, Special Issue, Li Keran Art Foundation, November 2007, p. 57

Condition

- Generally in good condition.
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