Flowers of All Seasons, 1919Horizontal handscroll, ink and color on silk, inscribed by the artist and dated jiwei and signed Bao Huang with four artist's seals reading Bao Huang, Peizhi, Jieqiang Luren zuohua and an illegible seal. 16 x 85 1/2in (40.8 x 217cm) 寶璜 四季花卉 設色絹本 手卷 一九一九年作Provenance/來源:Sotheby's New York, 18 September 1995, lot 97紐約蘇富比，1995年9月18日，拍品編號97Published/出版: Toda, Teisuke and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp. Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Third Series, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013, A50-089, p. 209戶田禎佑、小川裕充，《中國繪畫總合圖錄》三編，第一卷，東京大學出版會，東京，2013年，A50-089，頁209Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao. Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War Through the Cultural Revolution, 1840-1979, San Francisco: Echo Rock Ventures, in association with the Asian Art Museum-Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2000, pp. 118-119Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao,《風雲際會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，亞洲藝術博物館，李鐘文亞洲藝術文化中心，舊金山，加州，2000年，頁118-119Little, Stephen, and J. May Lee Barrett. New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection, Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007, pp. 384-385Little, Stephen, J. May Lee Barrett,《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香山藝術博物館，夏威夷，2007年，頁384-385Exhibited/展覽:Between the Thunder and the Rain, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, California, October 25, 2000-January 14, 2001《風雲際會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，亞洲藝術博物館，舊金山，加州，2000年10月25日至2001年1月14日Peonies on Paper, Chinese Export Botanical Painting, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 17, 2003-July 18, 2004《中國植物外銷畫：牡丹》，皮博迪艾塞克斯博物館，塞勒姆，馬薩諸塞州，2003年6月17日-2004年7月18日New Songs on Ancient Tunes, Honolulu Art Academy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 30-October 28, 2007《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香山藝術博物館，夏威夷，2007年8月30日至10月28日Bao Huang, who used the courtesy name Peizhi, was a Mongol noble from Jinan in Shandong province. Yousheng huaren zhuan recorded him as a painter specializing in flower paintings. The current lot is a fine example of such genre. As the viewer unrolls the scroll, flowers from all seasons bloom continuously. Each flower represents a different auspicious meaning. The artist applied the gongbi technique, capturing the extravagance with the inclusion of all the subtle details. From the inscription, it seems that Bao Huang was familiar with Jiang Pu (1708-1761)'s work, who was the son of the well-known flower painter Jiang Tingxi (1669-1732).