Attributed to Cao Zhibai
(Chinese, 1272-1355)
Landscape
ink on paper, hanging scroll
signed and inscribed with an artist seal, Yunxi. A title slip by Wen Zhengming (1470-1559).
曹知白（款）
（元，1272-1355）
古木寒林圖
紙本水墨，立軸
款識：至正庚寅（1350）秋八月雲西老人為克用老友寫古木寒林圖。
鈐印：云西
題簽：古木寒林圖真跡。嘉靖壬辰（1532）十月文徵明題簽。
Image: height 40 x 18 1/2 in., 101.6 x 47 cm.
Provenance:
Ex. Collection of Afonso Chen, Canada
Mr. LEUNG KIM WAH, an investment banker and avid collector, integrates his passion for art with his cultural activities. He has resided in Canada for four decades where he has held senior positions with major Canadian banks, and currently sits on the board of governors of the Chinese Culture Centre of Greater Toronto, as well as boards of Crown corporations of Canada. Mr. Leung regularly makes charitable contributions to universities, hospitals and Chinese communities.
Mr. Leung has developed close relationships with other collectors, having acquired fan paintings and many scroll paintings from the collection of the late Afonso Chen（陳毅生), a prominent attorney in Macau. Several paintings from this collection have been exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum and illustrated in the accompanying catalogue More Than Keeping Cool: Chinese Fans and Fan Painting. Other pieces in Mr. Leung’s collection were purchased through the Chen family, well-known Southeast Asian collectors of paintings and calligraphy from the Lingnan and other schools, who also resided in Canada.
Mr. Leung’s commitment to the preservation of cultural heritage and legacy is evident in his collecting across categories; since the 1990s, Mr. Leong has developed a significant collection of Chinese painting and other arts.
梁錦華先生是著名的華裔投資銀行家，歷任加拿大主要銀行證券部執行董事及國營企業公司董事。在旅居加拿大的四十年中，先後被政府委以重要經貿公職。梁先生亦長期擔任大多倫多中華文化中心監事會委員，致力於推動本地文教及公益事業。
梁先生是一名資深收藏家。90年代起他受澳門大律師陳毅生先生影響接觸到中國書畫，從此開始系統性收藏。本次上拍的一部分扇面小品及捲軸即陳毅生律師之舊藏，其中不少曾借展于皇家安大略省博物館2001-2002年間舉辦的《中國扇》 (More Than Keeping Cool: Chinese Fans and Fan Painting) 大展，並著錄于該展圖錄。梁先生的另一批書畫來自東南亞名門陳氏家族，該家族以收藏嶺南派著稱，現旅居加拿大及東南亞兩地。
