Artist: He Haixia 何海霞 (1908 - 1998)
Snowy Landscape
Ink and color on paper, Yisebiao matted, wooden framed, set behind glass
Painting (Sight): Length: 65.8 cm, Width: 49.3 cm
Dated: Summer of Day of Geng Shen Year (1980)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with Two Artist seal

PROVENANCE: The Exceptional Collections of Lieutenant General Cai Wenzhi 蔡文治 (1911 - January 9, 1994), Courtesy Name: Ding Wu 定武, Spouse: Madame Wu Peiqi 吳佩琪 (Wu Peifu's 吳佩孚's younger sister). Cai Wenzhi born in Huanggang County, Hubei Province (Xinzhou District, Wuhan City). Graduated from the ninth period of the Whampoa Military Academy and the thirteenth period of the Army University. Lieutenant General of the National Revolutionary Army.

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The collections of General Cai Wenzhi 蔡文治 presented and offered up to auctions:
ON DAY - 1: From Lot - 85 through Lot - 161, and continued from Lot - 319 through Lot - 350.
ON DAY - 2: from Lot - 463 through Lot - 533, and continued from Lot - 699 through Lot - 740.

LOT NOTES/ ARTIST BIO:
He Haixia 何海霞 (October 7, 1908 - August 5, 1998), whose name was Ying, whose style name was Haixia. People from Beijing. In 1956, he was transferred to the Shaanxi Artists Association to engage in professional creation and was one of the representative painters of the "Changan School of Painting". In 1983, he served as the vice president of the Shaanxi Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting, and soon transferred to the Beijing Academy of Chinese Painting. Good at landscape, but also flowers. His creations often integrate green and green meticulous brushwork with ink brushwork, with novel ideas, vigorous brushwork, and vigorous yet beautiful style.His representative works include "How Soaring and Magnificent is the Mountain in Huashan", "Qingqiu in Northern Shaanxi", "Looking at the Mountains and Seeing the Mountains of the Motherland" and so on.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition. Natural imperfection on the medium (paper or silk), regardless from any major damages; includes light blooms, discoloration and minor fading. Consider normal due to the ages. Frame with normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, consider ages and wear.
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