GUAN SHANYUE (1912-2000)
Plum Blossoms, 1987
Framed and glazed, ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed by the artist, dated, with four artist's seals, Moyang, Guan Shanyue yin, bashi niandai and bimo dangsui shidai.
26 3/4 x 53 3/8in (68 x 135.6cm) sight
Footnotes:
關山月 紅梅報春 設色紙本 鏡框 一九八七年作

款識：枝掃氛霾光焰焰，骨崚霜雪鐵錚錚。並錄趙樸老詩句，一九八七年冬月於珠江南岸隔山書舍，關山月筆。

鈐印：漠陽、關山月印、八十年代、筆墨當隨時代

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist

來源：
藏家直接得自藝術家

Originally from Hong Kong, the consignor of this lot operated a jewelry importing company to Seattle. He and his wife would collect art pieces while traveling worldwide seeking gemstones for their business. A sophisticated eye trained on jewels led the owner to develop an equally fine aesthetic taste in art and he soon developed a strong appreciation for Chinese painting.

One of the consignor's business associates, whose father was a close friend of Guan Shanyue, and introduced the two. During his first visit to the artist's studio in 1979, the owner received an autographed book of the artist's early paintings.

During a visit to the artist's studio in the late 1980s, the present lot was purchased. This painting, of one of Guan Shanyue's signature subjects, was specially selected to wish prosperity for the owner's business and good luck in life. For more than three decades, the painting was prominently displayed in the owner's office.

For another horizontal plum blossom painting by the artist using the same da xieyi technique, see Christie's Hong Kong, November 28th, 2017, lot 1293.