Live Auction 18265Fine Chinese Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings
XU BEIHONG (1895-1953)
Lot 1102

XU BEIHONG (1895-1953)

Magpie in Autumn / Cat

Closed8 July 2020

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HKD 375,000

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XU BEIHONG (1895-1953)
Magpie in Autumn / Cat
Two scrolls, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
Each scroll measures 30 x 33 cm. (11 ¾ x 13 in.)
(2)Magpie in Autumn inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated guiwei year (1943)
Cat inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated summer, 1952
Dedicated to Ruohong (Cai Ruohong, 1910-2002)

Christie’s Hong Kong, Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings, 26 April 1998, Lot 238.

Specialist note

Cai Ruohong was a native of Jiujiang, Jiangxi. He was one of the founders of the New China Fine Art movement, a famous artist, and he graduated from the Western Painting Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in 1931. Cai later joined the Chinese Left-wing Artists Union and engaged in comic illustration in Shanghai. After 1949, he served as an art editor of People’s Daily, deputy director of the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, and vice president of the Chinese Painting Research Institute.