Long Yusheng
Discourse on Tuning
Estimate: 100.000 - 200.000 HKD
Price realised: 200.000 HKD
Price realised: 200.000 HKD
Description
Two bound books of 240 pages, ink on paper
Each page measures 31 x 22.5 cm. (12 ¼ x 8 7/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed by the artist
Dated winter, bingxu year (1946)
NOTE:
Long Yusheng was an important scholar on ci. He met Wang Jingwei as they were both pupils of the ci-poet Zhu Zumou (1857-1931). Discourse on Tuning is a seminal book on the study of ci, of which the present lot is one of the earliest known, handwritten drafts. The draft was composed in Suzhou Prison and sent to Chen Bijun for safekeeping. After Long was released, a revised version of the text titled Ten Lectures on Ci was published. (2)
Each page measures 31 x 22.5 cm. (12 ¼ x 8 7/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed by the artist
Dated winter, bingxu year (1946)
NOTE:
Long Yusheng was an important scholar on ci. He met Wang Jingwei as they were both pupils of the ci-poet Zhu Zumou (1857-1931). Discourse on Tuning is a seminal book on the study of ci, of which the present lot is one of the earliest known, handwritten drafts. The draft was composed in Suzhou Prison and sent to Chen Bijun for safekeeping. After Long was released, a revised version of the text titled Ten Lectures on Ci was published. (2)
Sold at the upper estimate price
The work Discourse on Tuning by Long Yusheng was sold in the Fine Chinese Modern Paintings auction at Christies in Hong Kong in May 2017. The auction ended at the price of HKD 200,000.00 (€ 22,837.31), which exactly corresponded to the upper end of the estimated price range of HKD 100,000.00 – 200,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Long Yusheng - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Poems Of Chen Gongbo, which sold at auction in April 2012 for HKD 620,000.00 (€ 60,411.22).
Zuschlag beim oberen Schätzpreis
Die Arbeit Discourse on Tuning von Long Yusheng wurde im Mai 2017 in der Auktion Fine Chinese Modern Paintings bei Christies in Hong Kong versteigert. Das dabei erzielte Ergebnis von HKD 200.000,00 (€ 22.837,31) entsprach exakt dem oberen Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von HKD 100.000,00 – 200.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Long Yusheng mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Poems Of Chen Gongbo beobachtet, die im April 2012 für HKD 620.000,00 (€ 60.411,22) versteigert wurde.
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