ARTIST(s): Pan TianShou 潘天寿 (1897-1971) ink and color on paper, Hanging scroll Title: Orchid grown over rock works 兰石图 Painting (Sight): Length: 68 cm, Width: 29.5 cm Signed/Seal(s): an artist seal, signed Dated: Min Guo 11th Years (1922) Comments: 1922, Pan TianShou gourd abundant scroll painting. In long vertical Xuan paper. The panel hand painted with abundant fruiting Gourd, all in yellow and grisaille color. ?Calligraphy Chinese lettering inscriptions poems, followed with artist's signature and iron-red seals on the right side and lower left. PROVENANCE: Estate Collections of GENERAL YU BINDONG 俞濱東 (1903-1990) (AKA: 天宾) R.O.C. Presidential Palace Third Class of Major Generals, Director of Assistant Commissioner, Official bodyguard, Security guard brigade commander of the building controls, the affairs of state, presidential palace Internal business, printing and engraving branch. For more information about General Yu Bingdong 俞濱東, please follow this link: www.eden-galleries.com/yubindong/ Video Documentation on Youtube: https://youtu.be/CdiGidqkQYk Video Documentation on Youku (China): http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTE3MjYyODkwOA==.html The collections of General Yu Bindong 俞濱東 presented and offered up to auctions: ON DAY-1: From Lot-121 through Lot-141, and continued from Lot-233 through Lot-251. ON DAY-2: From Lot-393 through Lot-413, and continued from Lot-481 through Lot-493. LOT NOTES: Pan Tianshou 潘天寿 (1897-1971) Chinese painter, art educator, and art theorist who was one of the most important traditional Chinese painters of the 20th century, following Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong, promoted the development of Chinese painting. He is highly esteemed for his dynamic landscape and bird-and-flower paintings imbued with a literati aesthetic. Tianshou argued for a distinct separation between Chinese and Western painting, wrote extensively on Chinese art history and theory, and devoted himself to the proliferation and education of China's artistic heritage. Pan's paintings are known for their bold composition, his vigorous application of brushstrokes and ink splashes, tonal variation, his occasional use of fingers as an unmediated medium, and poetic inscriptions executed in refined calligraphy.