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Lot 188

Xu Beihong (1895-1953)
Standing Horse

27 November 2017, 10:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

Sold for HK$2,250,000 inc. premium

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Xu Beihong (1895-1953)

Standing Horse
Ink and colour on paper, mounted on cardboard, framed
Signed Beihong, with one seal of the artist
Dated thirty-second year of the Republican era (1943)
56cm x 38cm (22in x 15in).

Footnotes

Provenance:
Previously in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Streeper, American Consul General at Chongqing in 1940s, and thence by descent

徐悲鴻 駿馬圖 設色紙本 裱於卡紙 鏡框 一九四三年作

款識:卅二年(1943)秋,悲鴻。
鈐印:徐

來源:
來源:羅伯特·斯特里伯(中文名施禮柏)夫婦舊藏,並由其後人珍藏至今。羅伯特·斯特里伯,美國外交官。上世紀二十年代任駐津總領事,後改派伊朗德黑蘭。四十年代中期重返中國,一九四六年七月至四八年十一月,任美國駐渝總領事,主要協助馬歇爾將軍調解國共停戰。其夫人施瑪莎雅好藝術,與重慶藝壇多有交往。

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