DENG FEN (1894-1964)
Lot 31

DENG FEN (1894-1964)

Seven-character Calligraphic Couplet in Running Script

Closed8 March 2024

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DENG FEN (1894-1964)
Seven-character Calligraphic Couplet in Running Script
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on gold-flecked paper
Each scroll measures 111 x 24.3 cm. (43 ¾ x 9 5⁄8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated fourth day, twelfth month, gengchen year (1940)
Dedicated to Haung Su

NOTE:
Mr Huang Su, a Hong Kong businessman active in the early 1900s, was a friend to many Lingnan painters in Hong Kong and Macau. He was also an acquaintance of Madam Ren Jianhui (1912-1989), a famous Chinese opera singer, who once owned the work.

Previously from the property of Huang Su.
Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings (I), 29 May 2006, Lot 847.