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Lin Biao (林椿; 1174-1186) Chinese Southern Song Dynasty traditional painting with ink and color on silk, hanging scroll. Depicted iris blooms out grew from rock works beneath flowering peony tree.
PROVENANCE: From the heirloom collections of DR. Wu Guozhen (吳國楨; October 21, 1903-June 6, 1984) was a Chinese political figure and historian, government official who served as mayor of Hankow (1932-1938), mayor of Chung-king (1939-1941), political vice minister of foreign affairs (1943-1945), mayor of Shanghai (1946-1948), and governor of Taiwan (1950-1952) and the former Chairman of Taiwan Provincial Government. He resigned in 1953 and went to the United States. K.C. Wu lived in the United States where he served as professor of Chinese history at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. During his time in the United States, he wrote various works, including a detailed analysis on Chinese culture in the context of mythology and early history in his book The Chinese Heritage.
The second part collections of DR. Wu Guozhen (吳國楨) presented and offered up to auctions: ON DAY-1: From Lot-97 through Lot-124, and continued from Lot-204 through Lot-228. ON DAY-2: from Lot-357 through Lot-386.
LOT NOTES: Lin Biao (林椿; 1174-1186) Southern Song Dynasty, born in Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Lin Biao was a master painter of the Southern Song Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong, he was bestowed as a court artist. Famous in painting of flowers and birds, grass worms, fruit, light color, fine brushwork, beautiful color, perfectly express the natural form. The handed down works include: Mei Zhu Han Bird Map album, hidden in the Shanghai Museum. Fruit cooked bird map, Grape grass insect, Bishan bird map, hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.