Lot 85
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[PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION] HUANG ZHOU (1925-1997)
CHINESE INK PAINTING OF THREE DONKEYS
Auction: 15 May 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
黃冑 三驢圖 水墨紙本 立軸
款識：平生歷盡崎嶇路，不向人間訴不平，何國強先生存正，黃冑
鈐印：黃冑之印、映齋
ink on paper, with inscriptions, dedicated to Ho Kwok Keung, signed and with two seals of the artist, hanging scroll
Dimensions
49cm x 61cm
Provenance
Private English collection, formerly in the personal collection of Ho Kwok Keung 何國強 (1948 - 2014), which was gifted by the artist, thence by direct descent based in England.
Ho Kwok Keung was the son-in-law of Tien Shu Hsiu 田淑秀（1921–1998）. He was born into an entrepreneurial Hong Kong family, making his way to the UK as a young man, and rapidly gaining a reputation as a restaurateur in the 1980s, as co-owner of two of Scotland's first premium Chinese restaurants specialising in Cantonese banquet cuisine. Maintaining close ties with Hong Kong and mainland China, Kwok Keung visited his homeland often. He collected a variety of 20th-century art, including the paintings of Huang Zhou, to whom he was introduced and became an acquaintance of in the early 1970s, Seven Chicks being an example of a personal dedication from the artist. Kwok Keung continued to travel between China and the UK, on one occasion acting in the capacity of Manager of the Scottish Badminton team during their sojourn in China in the late 1980s.
英國私人收藏，原為何國強（1948–2014）個人收藏，由藝術家本人贈與，後由位於英國的直系後裔傳承。
何國強為田淑秀的女婿, 生於香港一個企業家家庭，年輕時前往英國，並在1980年代迅速以餐廳經營者聞名，他共同擁有蘇格蘭最早專營粵式宴席料理的兩家高級中餐廳。國強與香港及中國大陸保持密切聯繫，經常返回家鄉。他收藏了多種二十世紀藝術品，其中包括黃冑的畫作。他在1970年代初經人介紹認識黃冑，並與之結識，本幅《三驢圖 》便是畫家親筆題贈之作。國強持續往來於中國與英國之間，1980年代末期曾一度擔任蘇格蘭羽毛球隊在中國集訓期間的領隊。