WEN JIA (REPUBLIC PERIOD)

WEN JIA (REPUBLIC PERIOD)
A MISTY MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE

140cm x 38cm.

From the collection of Jean Brediam (d.1949).

A Chinese scroll painting, ink and colour on silk, inscribed with a signature of Wen Jia, with two artist's seals.

From the collection of Jean Brediam (d.1949), who was the Director General of the Municipal Services of the French Concession in Shanghai until 1940. In 1946, he returned to China and was appointed the Head of the Shanghai office of the French Economic Mission.