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[QI BAISHI (1864-1957)] A collection of three works in six volumes pertaining to Qi Baishi, comprising:

Lot 22

[QI BAISHI (1864-1957)]
A collection of three works in six volumes pertaining to Qi Baishi, comprising:

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Closed

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Estimate$3,000 – $5,000

Status

Closed

[QI BAISHI (1864-1957)]
A collection of three works in six volumes pertaining to Qi Baishi, comprising:

Baishi laoren yin cun (Collection of Seals by the Old Man Baishi (Qi Baish). Four volumes, 272 x 158 mm. Impressions of seals carved by the artist on double leaves, each with handwritten notes, transcription, and translation. Silk tied binding, mild creasing, contained in a silk brocade folio.

[With:]

Qi Baishi huaji (Collected Painting of Qi Baishi). Beijing, Rongbaozhai,1952. Two editions in two volumes, 315 x 216 mm. Each a folding album of 22 color woodblock prints (some mild spotting). The first with blue silk brocade cover, the second of yellow, with publisher's cardboard case (edges slightly bumped).

齊白石木板水印及印譜三部

《白石老人印存》四冊
1952年榮寶齋出版《齊白石畫集》兩部

Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection

Each in overall good stable condition, with some minor spotting, corner bruises, and creasing to some endpapers. Paper labels with minor tears. The box for the yellow ground print book slightly bumped.

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Annie Wu

Senior Vice President, Head of Department, Asian Art

anniewu@freemansauction.com 312.447.3260

Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

Flora Zhang

Specialist, Asian Works of Art

florazhang@freemansauction.com 312.447.3290

Asian Works of Art

[QI BAISHI (1864-1957)]A collection of three works in six volumes pertaining to Qi Baishi, comprising:

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[QI BAISHI (1864-1957)]
A collection of three works in six volumes pertaining to Qi Baishi, comprising: