Live Auction 3261Fine Chinese Modern Paintings
ZHAO SHAO'ANG (1905-1998)
Lot 1559 LOTS 1559-1562
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ZHAO SHAO'ANG (1905-1998)

Spider Lily and Mantis

Closed26 November 2013

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HKD 400,000

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ZHAO SHAO'ANG (1905-1998)
Spider Lily and Mantis
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated ninth month, thirty-seventh year (of the Republic, 1948)
Dedicated to Ai'min
Titleslip by Lin Ai'min
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
86.4 x 44.5 cm. (34 x 17 1/2 in.)
20th Century

Lot 20, Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings, 2 November 1998

Specialist note

Lin Ai'min (1906-1964) was president of the Sing Tao Daily in the 1940s and 1950s. He represented Hong Kong's Newspaper Association to attend the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing in 1959.