Lot 15: GAI QI (1774-1829) Beauties (8)

Est: $400,000 HKD - $500,000 HKDPassed

Bonhams Admiralty, Hong KongMay 27, 2021

Item Overview

Description

GAI QI (1774-1829)
Beauties
Ink on paper, album of eight leaves, exquisitely depicting a historical or fictional beauty in different setting on each leaf from a classic story, including Lin Daiyu from The Story of the Stone, Empress Dou (205 BC-135 BC), Consort Yu (232-202 BC), Cui Yingying from The Story of the Western Wing and other figures, signed Yuhu Shanren Gai Qi with eight artist's seals reading Gai Qi, Yuhu, Qixiang, Yuhu Shanren, two collector's seal reading Pangnai Zhencang. Each 32cm (12 1/2in) x 18cm (7in) (8).
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Artist or Maker

Qi Gai

Provenance

改琦（1773-1828）仕女圖冊水墨紙本一冊八開款識：玉壺山人改琦鈐印：改琦（陽文兩次，陰文一次）、玉壺、七香（兩次）、玉壺山人（兩次）藏印：龐耐珍藏（兩次）
Provenance:
Alice Boney (1901-1988) (seal)A Canadian private collection, and thence by descent
來源：
龐耐珍藏（簽印）加拿大私人收藏，後由家人保存
Alice Boney (1901-1988) was born in Philadelphia, her marriage with Jan Kleykamp brought her into the world of art dealing. Boney started her own business after her divorce from Kleykamp. She made a significant name for herself in the burgeoning field of Chinese art, despite competing in a male-dominated business with C. T. Loo and C. F. Yau. Her clients included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, Mrs. William H. Morris, and President Herbert Hoover. In the 1940s Boney began to acquire works by Chinese painter Qi Baishi (1853–1957). Her passion for Qi Baishi prompted greater scholarship about modern Chinese painting in the West.
藏印龐耐，即是Alice Boney（1901-1988）女士，出生於費城，六歲雙失，由祖父Morris A. Boney養大，後者乃是新澤西州工業鉅子。二十二歲時與荷蘭藝術古董商Jan Kleykamp結婚，由此進入藝術品世界；離婚後，龐耐女士開始自己的藝術品生意，獨抗當時男性主導的藝術品市場大鱷盧芹齋和姚叔萊。龐耐女士的客人包括大都會博物館，弗利爾美術館，胡佛總統，William H. Morris夫人等頂級藏家，她樂於提攜後輩，如安思遠、歐雲夫婦、埃斯卡納齊等人斯受其惠。龐氏亦是歐美世界最早大規模收藏齊白石的藝術家，早在1940年代她便把齊白石的藝術介紹到西方，可謂白氏伯樂。
The eight ladies in this album based on classic stories, fictions or plays, some of whom can be identified as Lin Daiyu, the heroine in Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber, unfinished in 1763 or 1764); Nongyu, the daughter of Mugong of Qin (d.621 BC); Cui Yingying, the heroine in Xixiang ji (Romance of the Western Chamber, debuted in the 13th century); Yu Ji (cica 233-202 BC), the concubine of Xiang Yu (232-20... For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website

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Auction Details

Fine Chinese Art Introducing Beauty and Beyond: Women in Chinese Art

Bonhams

May 27, 2021, 02:30 PM HKT

One Pacific Place, Suite 2001 88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong, 999077, HK

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