Asian Art Reference Books Online Auction

October 28, 2010

LOT 53

Lot 53

Thirty-Seven Volumes on Chinese Painting

Thirty-Seven Volumes on Chinese Painting
Lot 53 Details
Thirty-Seven Volumes on Chinese Painting

Including: CHINESE PAINTING. Cohn. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1951; PRINCIPLES OF CHINESE PAINTING. Rowley. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974; THE COMPELLING IMAGE: NATURE AND STYLE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING. Cahill. Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: Harvard University Press, 1982; FANTASTICS AND ECCENTRICS IN CHINESE PAINTING. Cahill. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1967; CHINESE PAINTING: LEADING MASTERS AND PRINCIPLES. Siren. London: Humphries and Company Limited, 1958; PAINTING AND LETTERS FOR THE LING SU-HUA COLLECTION. Paris: Cernuschi Museum. 1963; ART OF THE ORIENT. Grousset. Paris: Plon Library, 1936; CHINESE PAINTING. Hong Kong: Chinese Arts & Crafts (H.K.) Ltd.; CHINESE WATERCOLOURS. Hejzlar. London: Octopus Books, 1978; THE RESTLESS LANDSCAPE: CHINESE PAINTING OF THE LATE MING PERIOD. Cahill. Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1971; CHINESE LANDSCAPE: LANDSCAPE AS BEAUTIFUL PICTURES. Victoria, Canada: 1999; RETURNING HOME: TAO-CHI’S ALBUM OF LANDSCAPES AND FLOWERS. Fong. New York: Braziller, 1976; CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING. Lee. London: Prentice-Hall International Inc.; LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS BY KWANGTUNG MASTERS DURING THE MING & CH’ING PERIODS. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973; SHAN SHUI. Diez. Vienna: Wilhelm Andermann Publishers, 1943; THE CHINESE LANDSCAPE. Salmony. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.G. Publishers; STUDIES IN CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY: TRACES OF THE BRUSH. Fu. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977; CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY. Ecke. Boston: David R. Godine, 1971; CHINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY: A PICTORIAL SURVEY. Weng. Toronto: General Publishing Company, 1978; CHINESE AND JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY: SPANNING TWO THOUSAND YEARS. Komatsu and Wong. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989; BIOGRAPHY ON CHI PAI-SHIH. Qi. Shandong: Shandong Pictorial Publishing House, 2000; CH’I PAI-SHIH’S PAINTINGS. Hsu. Taipei: Art Book Co., Ltd. 1979; SESIN JONG. Jong. Art Books, 1996; THE ART OF WEN CHENG-MING (1470-1559). Edwards. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1976; CHINESE MASTERS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. Contag. London: Lund Humphries, 1969; MASTERPIECES OF 20TH CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING. The Canadian Foundation for the Preservation of Chinese Cultural and Historical Treasures, 1997; THE NEW CHINESE PAINTING: 1949-1986. Cohen. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987; LI TI. Edwards. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1967; SILENT POETRY: CHINESE PAINTINGS IN THE DOUGLAS DILLON GALLERIES. Fong and Hearn. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982; EXHIBITION OF MR. TAN TSZE CHOR’S COLLECTION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN CHINESE PAINTINGS AND CALLIGRAPHY. Singapore: The China Society, 1950; CHINESE PAINTING. Beijing, 1984; INDIVIDUALISTS AND ECCENTRICS: THE FINLAYSON COLLECTION OF CHINESE PAINTING. Toronto: Roy Ontarion Museum, 1964; ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT EXHIBITIONS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART IN LONDON, VOL III: PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT EXHIBITIONS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART IN LONDON, VOL IV: MISCELLANEOUS; THE SINGLE BRUSHSTROKE: 600 YEARS OF CHINESE PAINTING FROM THE CHING YUAN CHAI COLLECTION. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1985; THE FRANKLIN D. MURPHY LECTURES IX: THREE ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF CHINESE PAINTING. Cahill. Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1988; CHINESE TRADITIONAL PAINTING 1886-1966: FIVE MODERN MASTERS. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1982; IN PURSUIT OF ANTIQUITY: CHINESE PAINTINGS OF THE MING AND CH’ING DYNASTIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. EARL MORSE. Whitfield, Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1969.

Estimate $50-$100

Realised: $708
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From the library of books and catalogues of a prominent Toronto Asian Art collector

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