ZHAO SHAO’ANG (1905-1998)
Rest / Beetle on Gourd
Two fan leaves, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
1. Rest
18.6 x 52.6 cm. (7 ³⁄₈ x 20 ³⁄₄ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal
Dated summer, dingwei year (1967)
Dedicated to Yizhi

2. Beetle on Gourd
17.5 x 50.4 cm. (6 ⁷⁄₈ x 19 ⁷⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal
Dedicated to Yongchen

NOTE:
The recipient "Yongchen" refers to the Hong Kong painter Wen Yongchen (Wan Wing Sum, 1922-1995).

1. Rest:
Zhao Shao-ang, a Sixty Year Retrospective, The Yuen Gallery Collection, Yuen Gallery, Singapore, 1995, pp. 70-71.
The Foh Collection, Christie’s Hong Kong, May 2023, p. 160, pl. 127.

2. Beetle on Gourd:
Zhao Shao-ang, a Sixty Year Retrospective, The Yuen Gallery Collection, Yuen Gallery, Singapore, 1995, pp. 76-77.
The Foh Collection, Christie’s Hong Kong, May 2023, p. 160, pl. 128.

The Foh Collection, assembled by Singapore-based collectors Mr Foh Kim Hong and his wife, Ms Chan Siew Fong, celebrates five decades of life and partnership. Mr Foh, a Malaysian-born cellist, settled in Singapore after graduating from Taiwan Normal University and became a member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Ms Chan studied design in London and began collecting Chinese contemporary art in the late 1960s. In the early 1990s, the Fohs founded Yuen Gallery, the gallery organized many exhibitions featuring modern and contemporary ink artists such as Wu Guanzhong, Zhao Shao’ang, Hong Yi, Li Keran, Lu Yanshao, and Wu Zuoren. Mr and Mrs Foh’s son, Foh Kai Lik, has taken an active role in managing and shaping the future of the collection. The Foh family will donate all sale proceeds to benefit the children with autism and special needs and the elderly living with cognitive decline.