Live Auction 16699Fine Chinese Modern Paintings
ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Lot 1364

ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)

Begonia

Closed28 May 2019

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HKD 625,000

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ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Begonia
Scroll, mounted on cardboard and framed, ink and colour on paper
44 x 51.5 cm. (17 3/8 x 20 ¼ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with four seals and one dated seal of jiwei (1979)
Dated thirteenth day of the tenth month, sixty-eighth year (of the Republic, 1979)
Dedicated to Jiayou

Christie’s Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Modern Paintings, 26 May 2008, Lot 837.

Specialist note

The recipient of this painting is Liu Jiayou, a good friend of the artist. He opened Fufeng Bank in Shanghai and befriended Zhang Daqian and other artists. After 1948, he moved to Hong Kong and lived in the same building as Zhang, Liu visited Zhang many times after the artist moved to Taiwan in 1976.