Lot 800
  • 800

Liu Dahong

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Liu Dahong
  • The Shanghai Bund
  • executed in 1987
  • oil on canvas
signed in Chinese and Pinyin, framed

Provenance

Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Don J. Cohn, Liu Dahong Painting 1986-92, Schoeni Fine Oriental Art Hong Kong, China, 1992, pp. 42- 47
Hong Tu, ZJ Innopark, Shanghai, China, 2006, pp. 16-19
Tan Jie, Liu Dahong Homilist, Chengdu, China, 2007, p. 42
Liu Dahong's Textbook Elementary Level (Lessons 1 to 27), Educate the People Publishing House, Hong Kong, China, 2007, p. 22

Condition

This work is generally in good condition. There is a protrusion measuring approximately 1 cm in the lower left edge. Having examined the work under ultraviolet light, there appears to be no evidence of restoration.
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