Live Auction 3211Fine Chinese Modern Paintings
QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Lot 1150

QI BAISHI (1863-1957)

Birds on Pine Tree

Closed28 May 2013

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HKD 930,000

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QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Birds on Pine Tree
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated autumn, ninth month, bingyin year (1926)
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on paper
130 x 40.5 cm. (51 1/8 x 16 in.)
20th Century

Collection of Th?odore Culty (1870-1965), thence by descent.

Specialist note

Th?odore Culty (1870-1965) was a dealer and great connoisseur of Chinese art and acquired works for the Mus?e Guimet of Paris among other institutions. Born in Japan in 1870, to a Japanese mother and French father, he first came to China in 1901 as a businessman selling wines. Greatly passionate about Chinese art, he decided to settle in Bejing and open his first Chinese art gallery there. In 1925, he established a Chinese art gallery in Paris, and split his time between Beijing and Paris with his family for 20 years until 1945.