11. Squirrel and pine

Ink and colour on paper, mounted, framed
Signed Cheng-wu, with one seal of the artist

顔色紙本 鏡框
款識： 成武
鈐印：[費]

Provenance:
Estate of the Artist

In traditional Chinese paintings the animals typically depicting climbing around in pine trees are tree shrews (family Tupaiidae) rather than true squirrels (family sciuridae). Here, Fei has substituted the red squirrel native to Britain, his adopted home.

紅松鼠

Dimensions: 41 x 21 cm

Date: Fei Cheng-wu (1911-2000)

Price: £ 1,800