Lot 3772: POEM IN RUNNING SCRIPT

LIU YAZI (1883-1958) POEM IN RUNNING SCRIPT Hanging scroll, ink on paper Inscribed and signed by the artist, with one seal Dated the twenty-eighth day, fifth month, thirty-fourth year [of the Republic] (1945) Dedicated to Xiaocen 26 3/8 x 19 1/4 in. (66.9 x 49 cm.)

66.9 x 49 cm.

Liu Yazi (1887-1958) was a political poet from Suzhou. Liu used poetry as a weapon and wrote more than 7,200 agitated and militant poems. He held the posts of secretary in Sun Yet-Sen’s Presidential Palace and chairman of the Shanghai General Annals House. He also established and organized the Southern Society.