FANG ZHAOLING (CHINESE 1914-2006)
'THE LAKE TAI SCENERY', PAINTED IN FEBRUARY 1996
£8,750
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 6 November 2019 at 12:00 GMT
Description
方召麐《太湖景》設色紙本
ink and colour on paper, depicting various figures along the Lake Tai, surrounded by a mountainous setting, with various seals of the artist, in gilded wooden frame done by the collector, translation of the Chinese calligraphies: "Drafted on the 7th and 8th day in the Year of Bing Zi (25 and 26 February 1996). On the 9th (27 February) the figures and pine trees were added. Fang Zhaoling"
Dimensions
80 x 113cm
Footnote
Provenance: private collection of Professor Philip N Love, CBE, Aberdeen. He received this painting as a gift from the artist on 14 September 1996. Together with the painting, he was also gifted "The Passionate Realm” exhibition catalogue including paintings by Fang Zhaoling, where Fang wrote “Philip and Isobel, With Season’s Compliments, from Fang Zhaoling, 1996 Sep 14th" followed by her signature
Photos: Prof. Love and Fang Zhaoling in her apartment in Repulse Bay Road, Hong Kong
Note: Fang Zhaoling was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. From 1937 onwards she travelled and lived in many places, including Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and exhibited her paintings widely in the United States, Europe and East Asia. Exhibitions including: "Fang Zhaoling: A Life in Painting" at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in 2005; "Fang Zhaoling: A Centenary Exhibition" at the Ashmolean Museum of Art in the University of Oxford in 2015
Lake Tai is situated in Wuxi where Fang Zhaoling was born in Jiangsu Province in 1914. She clearly had very fond memories of the lake which is known for its productive fishing industry, and of the fishermen and their fleets of small private fishing boats (as appeared in her painting).
Photo: Handwritten note by Sir Harry Fang , the late brother-in-law of Fang Zhaoling, on a photograph of the painting indicating that the painting is titled as 'The Lake Tai Scenery'