[Temple Of Heaven, Beijing, China]
c1925. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 28.5 x 38cm. Soiling and slight scuffs overall, minor creases to uneven margins. Provenance: W.A. Pennell estate. Hu Boxiang, a prize-winning artist and photographer, was trained in Chinese traditional painting, western lithography, watercolour and photography. He founded and became Director of the Oriental Fine Arts Society, and in 1928 co-founded the China Photography Society and the magazine China Photography. He also worked with W.A. Pennell in the advertising department at the British American Tobacco Company in Shanghai. Ref: E. J. Laing, Selling Happiness, 2004.
Item #CL185-49
Price (AUD): $3,300.00 other currencies