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Lot 106
XU BEIHONG (1895 - 1953)
Estimated Value:
120.000 € - 180.000 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, dated 1936112 x 39 cm, R.
Cat on a Blossoming Tree. , ink and colors on paper, framed under glass. Signature by the artist: „On a spring day in the year twenty five (1936), Beihong”. One seal of the artist: „Beihong”.
From the estate of General Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878-1966). Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate, through inheritance to the present owners - Very minor traces of age
Xu Beihong was the most influential of the Chinese painters who studied Western Art in Europe in the early 1920s. He studied in Paris and Berlin, travelled in Europe 1926-27 and in 1927 returned to China. In the following years he organized many international exhibitions on modern Chinese painting and in 1936 became director of the National Art Academy. In the mid 1930s and early 1940s he did a series of cat paintings, of which this painting is a fine example. In his courtyard home he raised many cats and enjoyed to paint them in combination with a blossoming tree trunk. This white cat with black dots occurs in several of his paintings. The combination of Western realism with Chinese ink painting techniques is here especially attractive
