Artist: Song Meiling 宋美齡 (1898 - 2003)
Title: Peony
Ink on paper, Yisebiao mount, wooden framed, set behind glass
Painting (Sight): Length: 56 cm, Width: 45 cm
Dated: The Third Day in Eighth Month of Minguo Sixty-Seventh Year (1978)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with Artist seal

PROVENANCE: The Exceptional Collections of Lieutenant General Cai Wenzhi 蔡文治 (1911 - January 9, 1994), Courtesy Name: Ding Wu 定武, Spouse: Madame Wu Peiqi 吳佩琪 (Wu Peifu's 吳佩孚's younger sister). Cai Wenzhi born in Huanggang County, Hubei Province (Xinzhou District, Wuhan City). Graduated from the ninth period of the Whampoa Military Academy and the thirteenth period of the Army University. Lieutenant General of the National Revolutionary Army.

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The collections of General Cai Wenzhi 蔡文治 presented and offered up to auctions:
ON DAY - 1: From Lot - 85 through Lot - 161, and continued from Lot - 319 through Lot - 350.
ON DAY - 2: from Lot - 463 through Lot - 533, and continued from Lot - 699 through Lot - 740.

LOT NOTES/ ARTIST BIO:
Soong Mei - ling or Soong May - ling, Song Meiling 宋美齡 (March 5, 1897 - October 23, 2003); also known as Madame Chiang Kai - shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai - shek. Soong played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister - in - law of Sun Yat - sen, the founder and the leader of the Republic of China. She was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary and active positions, including chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the Second Sino - Japanese War she rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and in 1942 conducted a speaking tour of the United States to gain support. She was also the youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, and the only first lady during World War II who lived into the 21st century. Soong spent the rest of her life in a Gracie Square apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan owned by her niece. An open house viewing of the estate drew many Taiwanese expatriates. When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York. Her life extended into three centuries.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition. Natural imperfection on the medium (paper or silk), regardless from any major damages; includes light blooms, discoloration and minor fading. Consider normal due to the ages. Frame with normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, consider ages and wear.
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