Live Auction 20161Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy
GUAN XINING (1712-1785)
Lot 905 PROPERTY OF A HONG KONG PRIVATE COLLECTOR (LOTS 904-905)

GUAN XINING (1712-1785)

Scene of West Lake

Closed29 November 2021

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HKD 1,875,000

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GUAN XINING (1712-1785)
Scene of West Lake
Handscroll, ink on paper
21 x 81 cm. (8 1⁄4 x 31 7⁄8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Inscription on the mounting by Wang Shishen (1686-1762), dated fourth year of the Qianlong period (1739), Gao Xiang (1688-1753, with a landscape sketch) and their contemporaries, signed with a total of nineteen seals
Further inscribed by Huang Zijing (1886-1962), signed with one seal
Dated new year, jimao year (1939) and dedicated to Mingshi (Lo Mingshi, 1899-1940)

Specialist note

Guan Xining, Jiangsu Yangzhou native, was closed to the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and had a special friendship with Wang Shishen. Guan dedicated this painting to Wang as a farewell souvenir. Wang inscribed on the painting in 1739, and Wang’s contemporaries wrote various colophons in which Gao Xiang made a sketch as well.
The work was later collected by Huang Yafu (Wong Ah Fook), a Singapore entrepreneur whose son Huang Zijing later gifted it to Luo Mingshi (Law Ming Shek) in 1939. It has been in the family collection since then.