Lot 8177: Yu Jianhua (1895-1979)

Landscape, 1931 Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and dated xinwei (1931), and signed Yu Jianhua with two artist's seals, one reading Jianhua zhi yin, and a collector's seal. 51 3/4 x 21 3/4in (131.4 x 55.2cm)

131.4 x 55.2cm

: Wondrous Ink, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI August 28-December 5, 2010.

俞劍華 山水 設色紙本 立軸 一九三一年作 Between the Thunder and the Rain, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA October 25, 2000- January 14, 2001. Published: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Between the Thunder and the Rain, San Francisco, 2000. p. 235, no 113. Well-known as an art historian, Yu Jianhua famously edited the indispensable comprehensive biographical dictionary of Chinese artists (Zhongguo Meishujia Renming Cidian 中國美術家人名辭典) published posthumously in 1981, and a two volume history of Chinese painting Zhongguo Huihuashi 中國繪畫史 nearly fifty years earlier in 1937.