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Pan Tianshou (1897 - 1971), Eagle,depicting an eagle standing on a rock. Signed and mounted as hanging scroll. 36"hx 16"w (91 x 41 cm) Provenance: Alice Boney (1901-1988) Collection. Alice Boney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.After Boney graduated from Mount Saint John Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies in Philadelphia, she preferred to broaden her education by seeing the world. By the age of twenty-two, Boney had not only come into the trust fund set up by her grandfather, but shehad also married Jan Kleykamp, a Dutch art dealer. In 1924 the Kleykamps made a honeymoon tour of European cities. They returned to New York City with a large shipment of Chinese tomb sculptures from the Tang dynasty and opened the Jan Kleykamp Gallery, the first gallery in the city to sell Chinese art. Boney went into business on her own after her divorce from Kleykamp. She made a significant name for herself in the burgeoning field of Chinese art appreciation and collecting, despite competing in a male-dominated business with C. T. Loo and C. F. Yau. Recognized as a preeminent authority on Chinese art, Boney earned the moniker “Doyenne of Oriental Art Dealers.” Her clients included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, Mrs. William H. Morris, and President Herbert Hoover. She mounted several exhibitions of Chinese and Japanese art during her career and influenced some of the greatest Asian art collectors and dealers of the twentieth century, among them, Robert H. Ellsworth, Florence and Herbert Irving, and Giuseppe Eskanazi. In the 1940s Boney began to acquire works by Chinese painter Qi Baishi (1853–1957). Her passion for Qi Baishi prompted greater scholarship of modern Chinese painting in the West. Boney moved to Japan in 1958, where she remained for the next sixteen years. She returned to New York in 1974 and continued to work from her Park Avenue apartment until her death from cardiac arrest in 1988. For additional information, including condition reports, please email Clars Los Angeles at ask@ClarsLA.com. The absence of a condition statement does not mean that the lot is in perfect condition

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