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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL GALLIS
Pu Hua (1832-1911)
Plum Blossoms, 1892Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper, inscribed by the artist and dated the tenth month of renchen, and signed Pu Hua with an artist's seal reading Pu Hua shi shuhua yin. 51 x 11 5/8in (129.5 x 29.5cm)
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蒲華 梅花 設色紙本 立軸 一八九二年作PROVENANCEShanghai International Commodity Auction Co., Ltd., 13 December 2000, lot 309PUBLISHEDGallis, Michael and Ma Xinle, Michael Gallis Collection of Chinese Paintings Maike Gailesi Zhongguo hua shoucang: yige Xifang xuezhe de Zhonghua wenhua zhilu?, Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2019, p. 133來源上海國際商品拍賣有限公司，2000年12月13日，拍品編號309出版馬欣樂主編，《邁克·蓋勒斯中國畫收藏：一個西方學者的中華文化之旅》，天津人民美術出版社，2019年，頁133Pu Hua was talented in calligraphy and painting, becoming a professional artist at an early age after dropping out of the Imperial Examination system and thus, a career as a government official. Notorious for his carefree vagabond ways, he was known as one of the Four Outstanding Artists of the Shanghai School with Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo and Xu Gu. He reached international fame in his lifetime, traveling to Japan, where his paintings were popularly collected. At the age of 60, the year the present painting was created, the artist settled permanently in Shanghai.
