Lot 140
INK SCROLL 'HERMIT AND LANDSCAPE' PAINTING
SIGNED SHEN ZHENSAN
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
沈振三 高士山水圖 紙本設色 立軸
款識: 東常書畫十年成，百煉千錘作見▢，宋畫備書三數月，何能脫俗稱明傳。(?) 戊寅冬月寫於濠江，以爲滿櫻仁兄先生雅正，沈振三作
鈐印: 沈振三印、自然山人
ink and colour on paper, inscribed with a poem upper right, dated to the cyclical Wu Yin year, signed and two seals of the artist
Dimensions
91cm x 47cm
Provenance
Provenance: Private Scottish collection, Glasgow; From the collection of Norman Lockhart Smith (1887-1968), thence by family descent.
Norman Lockhart Smith was in the Hong Kong Civil Service from 1910 to 1941 and became Colonial Secretary in 1936. He served as Acting Governor at various times, the longest being between April and November 1937. On his retirement in November 1941, Norman Lockhart Smith left Hong Kong with his family on 7th December 1941.
Norman Lockhart Smith continued to be the patron of Chinese culture and arts. He published a compilation of Chinese poetry, The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse, in 1962 in collaboration with a colleague, Sir Robert Kotewall, from their time in Hong Kong.
The current owner fondly remembers these pictures hanging in their house in Glasgow in the 1950s and subsequently inherited in the 1980s.