Lot 902: FANG RENDING (1901-1975)

Praying for Peace
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
114 x 65 cm. (44 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated autumn, twenty-sixth year (of the Republic of China, i.e. 1937)

Shanghai, Solo Exhibition, 1937.

Hong Kong, Exhibition of Fang Rending's Paintings Describing Scenes of War, 1938.

Guangdong, Guangdong Sheng Wenxian Guan, Fang Rending Renwu Huazhan, 1948.
Guangzhou, Guangdong Artists' Association, Guangdong Paintings Academy, Paintings of Fang Rending, 25 September - 1 October, 1980.

Zhongshan, Zhongshan Political Alliance and Zhongshan Department of Culture, Zhongshan Municipal Museum, Paintings of Fang Rending, 11-17 October 1984.

Macau, Macau Zhaobanlan Art Center, Paitnings of Fang Rending, 18-21 January 1986.

Guangdong, Guangdong Paintings Academy, Paintings of Fang Rending, 19-25 June, 1991.

Guangdong, Guangdong Art Museum, 100th Anniversary - Paintings of Fang Rending, 15 June-15 July 2001.

Beijing, National Art Gallery, Paintings of Fang Rending, 5 - 10 November 2003.

Paintings of Fang Rending, Lingnan Fine Art Publishing House, 1983, p. 85, pl. 68.

Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings -- Fang Rending, Poepole's Fine Art Publishing House, 2001, p. 33.

Family collection of Fang Rending

US$51,600-77,400