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Lot 7343

Bao Shaoyou (1892-1985)
Plum, Bamboo and Red Birds

23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$3,750 inc. premium

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Bao Shaoyou (1892-1985)

Plum, Bamboo and Red Birds
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, titled cuizhu youqin and signed Shaoyou with one artist's seal reading Shaoyou; above the painting a colophon of a poetic quatrain, dated sanshiqi nian (minguo 37th year, or 1948) and signed Shaoyou with two seals reading Shaoyou and Shaoyou shihua.
26 1/8 x 12 1/2in (66.4 x 31.8cm) painting
34 x 12 1/2in (86.4 x 31.8cm) painting and calligraphy

Footnotes

鮑少游 翠竹幽禽 設色紙本 立軸

Provenance:
From a San Francisco private collection

A native of Zhongshan in Guangdong province, Bao Shaoyou was born in Yokohama, Japan, and attended art school and university in Japan. Invited by Gao Jianfu to return to China in 1927, he taught traditional Chinese painting in Foshan Art Academy. He moved to Hong Kong in 1928 and continued teaching in the next decades. Considered one of the pillars of the second generation of Lingnan School painters, Bao excelled in painting bird-and-flower, animal, and landscape works.

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