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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 5, 2011 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Fine Chinese Paintings | 1256 | Estimates not disclosed | Spring Mountains in Sichuan |
Works on Paper
90.5 x 44.8 cm (35.63 x 17.64 in)
ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll
signed DAQIAN JUSHI, dated gui si, 1953, spring, and inscribed. Later inscribed again, signed DAQIAN ZHANG YUAN, with a dedication to Chen Chih-Ping, and a total of three seals of the artist
Chen Chih-Ping (1906-1984), a native of Wenchang, Guangdong Province, was a senior diplomat for the Republic of China. Graduated in 1927 from the National Central University, Nanjing, Chen began to teach at National Henan University in 1930 as a Professor of Law. In 1933, he served as the assistant dean at Shanghai Police Training School, and then counselor at the National Military Council from 1934 to 1943. With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Chen Chih-Ping was appointed director at the South-West Transportation Administration and later director of China-Burma Transportation Administration based in Rangoon to supervise the construction of the Yunnan – Burma Road. From the 1940s, Chen became involved mainly in foreign affairs, and was accredited to Burma as Representative of the Executive Yuan, then to Calcutta, India as the Chief Representative of Defense Supplies, where he was promoted to Consul General from 1943 to 1946. After the war, he was transferred to Manila as Minister to the Philippines for three years, and as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Philippines from 1949 to 1954, during which he was also a member of President Chiang Kai-shek's entourage to the Baguio Conference. Chen then returned to Taiwan as an Advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1955 to 56. In the next fifteen years that followed, Chen resumed his role as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotiary to Iraq, Jordan, Arab Union, Libya and Mexico successively. At the same time, he was a Chief Delegate to the United Nations Annual General Assembly from 1963 to 1971. After retiring from his Mexico posting, he resided in the United States, but continued to serve as Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Policy Advisor to the President. Throughout his civil career, he received 23 medals from the Republic of China and other countries. Chen Chih-Ping died in California on 11 Feb, 1984 aged 78.
Paintings by Zhang Daqian, Chung Hwa Book Co., Taipei, October 1956, pl.1
