Artist: Li Kuchan 李苦禅 (1899 - 1983)
Double Eagle
Ink and color on paper, Yisebiao matted, wooden framed, set behind glass
Painting (Sight): Length: 137 cm, Width: 63.7 cm
Dated: Wu Zi Year (1948)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with 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:
Li Kuchan 李苦禅 (1899 - 1983) born in Gaotang County of Shandong Province, was a great painter, calligrapher and art educator, is a great master of the traditional Chinese free idea painting. During the early years, he studied Western painting techniques in an art school in Beijing. Later on, he became a student of renowned Chinese artist Qi Baishi, and began to study Chinese painting. In 1930, he worked as a professor at the Hangzhou Art School and Beiping Art School, as well as at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Li well combined western techniques and spirituality in sculpture and painting into his Chinese painting teaching. He specialized in bird-and-flower paintings in the freehand style that captures the spirit of its subjects through expressive calligraphic brushwork and simplified forms.

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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