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China, 20th century. Ink and watercolors on paper, with a silk brocade frame and mounted as a hanging scroll. Boldly painted with a scholar seated amid bamboo stalks near a bridge in a vast misty landscape with towering mountains, pines and other trees, two waterfalls, and small huts.
Inscriptions: Upper left, signed ‘Huang Junbi’, titled ‘Landscape’, and dated ‘In the Summer of the Year of Xinmao’ (corresponding to 1951). Two seals of the artist, ‘Huang Junbi yin’ and ‘Jun Weng’.
Provenance: The Oliver Impey Collection of Modern Paintings. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2011, lot 1836, sold for HKD 300,000 or approx. EUR 49,000 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing). A private collector, acquired from the above. Oliver Impey (1936-2005) was the President of the Oriental Ceramics Society (1997-2000), a noted curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and a leading authority on the arts of Japan. He studied at the University of Oxford, completing his thesis while working in London at Sotheby's, where his connoisseurship and remarkable breadth of knowledge began to develop, as well as his intimate knowledge of the art trade and vigilant eye for a bargain. In 1967, he was appointed Assistant Keeper for Japanese Art at the Ashmolean, and was able, as a Sotheby's colleague put it rather bluntly, to move “straight from the whorehouse to the nunnery”. For nearly four decades, Impey was a tireless acquirer of fine objects, vastly expanding the Museum's holdings. He designed and raised the funds for a new Japanese Decorative Arts gallery to house these treasures and he also befriended several generous benefactors, who made important donations to the Museum. The respect with which he was held in Japan was marked by the award of the Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize in 1997. His personal collection contained works by major masters from Japan, China, and several other Asian countries, of which many were sold by Christie’s in Hong Kong in the late 2000s.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and little soiling.
Dimensions: Image size 115 x 54 cm, Size incl. mounting 217 x 64 cm
Huang Junbi (1898-1991) was an important Chinese master painter, who strongly believed in the inheritance of traditional brushwork while reforming it constantly to express one’s personal feelings. He moved to Taiwan together with Pu Ru and Zhang Daqian in 1949, the group thus became known as the ‘The Three Masters Crossing The Sea’. Huang studied both Chinese and Western painting in Guangzhou and Japan, eventually teaching at the National University in Chongqing (Guoli zhongyang daxue) during the Second Sino-Japanese war. After 1949, he became the head of the Fine Arts Department at the National Taiwan University.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Bonhams San Francisco, 16 December 2014, lot 8401
Price: USD 75,000 or approx. EUR 88,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Huang Junbi (1898-1991), Waterfall Landscape, dated 1943
Expert remark: Note the size (102.9 x 59.4 cm)
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2012, lot 1339
Price: HKD 800,000 or approx. EUR 124,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Huang Junbi (1898-1991), Mountainous Landscape, dated 1941
Expert remark: Note the size (96 x 40.6 cm)
China, 20th century. Ink and watercolors on paper, with a silk brocade frame and mounted as a hanging scroll. Boldly painted with a scholar seated amid bamboo stalks near a bridge in a vast misty landscape with towering mountains, pines and other trees, two waterfalls, and small huts.
Inscriptions: Upper left, signed ‘Huang Junbi’, titled ‘Landscape’, and dated ‘In the Summer of the Year of Xinmao’ (corresponding to 1951). Two seals of the artist, ‘Huang Junbi yin’ and ‘Jun Weng’.
Provenance: The Oliver Impey Collection of Modern Paintings. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2011, lot 1836, sold for HKD 300,000 or approx. EUR 49,000 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing). A private collector, acquired from the above. Oliver Impey (1936-2005) was the President of the Oriental Ceramics Society (1997-2000), a noted curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and a leading authority on the arts of Japan. He studied at the University of Oxford, completing his thesis while working in London at Sotheby's, where his connoisseurship and remarkable breadth of knowledge began to develop, as well as his intimate knowledge of the art trade and vigilant eye for a bargain. In 1967, he was appointed Assistant Keeper for Japanese Art at the Ashmolean, and was able, as a Sotheby's colleague put it rather bluntly, to move “straight from the whorehouse to the nunnery”. For nearly four decades, Impey was a tireless acquirer of fine objects, vastly expanding the Museum's holdings. He designed and raised the funds for a new Japanese Decorative Arts gallery to house these treasures and he also befriended several generous benefactors, who made important donations to the Museum. The respect with which he was held in Japan was marked by the award of the Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize in 1997. His personal collection contained works by major masters from Japan, China, and several other Asian countries, of which many were sold by Christie’s in Hong Kong in the late 2000s.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and little soiling.
Dimensions: Image size 115 x 54 cm, Size incl. mounting 217 x 64 cm
Huang Junbi (1898-1991) was an important Chinese master painter, who strongly believed in the inheritance of traditional brushwork while reforming it constantly to express one’s personal feelings. He moved to Taiwan together with Pu Ru and Zhang Daqian in 1949, the group thus became known as the ‘The Three Masters Crossing The Sea’. Huang studied both Chinese and Western painting in Guangzhou and Japan, eventually teaching at the National University in Chongqing (Guoli zhongyang daxue) during the Second Sino-Japanese war. After 1949, he became the head of the Fine Arts Department at the National Taiwan University.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Bonhams San Francisco, 16 December 2014, lot 8401
Price: USD 75,000 or approx. EUR 88,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Huang Junbi (1898-1991), Waterfall Landscape, dated 1943
Expert remark: Note the size (102.9 x 59.4 cm)
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2012, lot 1339
Price: HKD 800,000 or approx. EUR 124,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Huang Junbi (1898-1991), Mountainous Landscape, dated 1941
Expert remark: Note the size (96 x 40.6 cm)
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