Lot 798
  • 798

YU CHENGYAO | Memory of Mount Hua

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 HKD
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Description

  • Yu Chengyao
  • Memory of Mount Hua
  • signed and titled in Chinese, stamped with the artist's seal
  • ink and colour on paper 
  • 118 by 40 cm; by 46 ½ by 15 ¾ in. 

Provenance

Collection of Chen Mei-E, the founder of Han-Tang Yuefu

Exhibited

Taichung, Taiwan Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Yu Chengyao 100-year-old Retrospective Exhibition, 20 March - 20 June 1999

Literature

Taiwan Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Editorial Board, ed., Yu Chengyao 100-year-old Retrospective Exhibition, Taiwan Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 1999, p. 94
Lin Quan-Ju, Yu Chengyao, Lion Art Books, Taipei, 2000, no. 3-26, p. 65

Condition

There are some tiny worm-tracks and very minor spots of foxing scarcely scattered across the overall surface, which are visible only upon close inspection.
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