Immortal amid Clouds in a LandscapeImmortal Casting Flowers

These paintings belonged to the owner's mother, who lived in Beijing from May 1956 to June 1958 when her husband worked at the British Embassy in China. She collected a small but significant group of Chinese paintings during her time in Asia. Previous lots from this collection include a work by Qi Baishi (1863-1957), sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November 2012, lot 1144, and a collaborative painting by Wang Xuetao (1903-1984) and Yu Fei'an(1888-1959), sold Christie's Hong Kong 28 May 2013, lot 1290.