Description A Chinese watercolor and ink painting on paper by Huang Junbi of a scholar in a mountain landscape with a pine tree and a crane. The painting has an inscription dating the work to 1934, 3 seals, and is mounted on a silk backing with wooden dowels. Dimensions are: 39 7/8 inches tall X 12 1/4 inches wide, 101.3 cm tall X 31.1 cm wide. All measurements are approximate.
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Condition Report Minor mold spotting, overall good condition.
Provenance From the estate of Professor Hing Tong. Hing Tong (16 February 1922-4 March 2007) was a leading American mathematician. He is well known for providing the original proof of the Katetov-Tong insertion theorem. Born in Canton, China, Tong received bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, respectively. Over the course of his academic career, Tong made many significant contributions to the area of algebraic topology, serving as a professor at Columbia University and Princeton University and chair of the Mathematics Department at Fordham University. He was listed among the Outstanding Educators of America in 1973. Tong retired from academia in 1984 to concentrate on research in theoretical physics. His contribution to the field is commemorated by a brick in the Paul Halmos Commemorative Walk at the Carriage House Conference Center of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in Washington, D.C., which reads: "Hing Tong, Topology and Physics". Concurrent to his mathematical investigations, Tong was a passionate collector of traditional Chinese paintings and calligraphy, which he acquired at Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses from the 1980s to the early 1990s. Lot 496 -503 from our Sept 20, 2020 auction were from the same estate.