Lot 548
  • 548

Yuan Zhan (Yuan Jai)

Estimate
750,000 - 800,000 HKD
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Description

  • Yuan Zhan (Yuan Jai)
  • Liu Hai Playing with a Toad
  • ink and colour on silk
signed in Chinese, stamped with the artist's seal and dated Chinese sexagenary cycle
Executed in 2001. 

Provenance

Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Taipei, Eslite Gallery, Yuan Zhan, April 9 – May 1, 2005
Shanghai, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai 2006, May 12 – June 6, 2006

Literature

Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai 2006, Jinyou Publishing House, Shanghai, 2006, p. 74 – 83
Yuan Zhan, My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei, 2011, p. 150, 151, illustrated in colour

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light brown accretions across the surface of the painting, only visible under close examination. This work was not examined out of frame.
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