LUI SHOU-KWAN (1919-1975) Journey/Boats, 1963LUI SHOU-KWAN (1919-1975)Journey/Boats, 1963Ink and colours on paper, signature and seal of the artist, hanging scroll. 46cm long x 43.5cm wide (18 1/8in long x 17 1/8in wide). 呂壽琨 旅程/船 設色紙本 立軸 1963年Lui Shou-Kwan (Lü Shoukun) was born in Guangzhou in 1919. His father was a painter and scholar. He majored in economics at Guangzhou University and in 1948 moved to Hong Kong, where he was a leader in the New Ink Painting movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1949, he joined the Hong Kong Yaumati Ferry Company as an inspector and worked there until 1966. He also taught ink painting at the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work falls primarily into two categories, described as Hong Kong landscapes and Chan paintings. Stylistically, he adopted abstract forms and is credited for fusing Western styles with Hong Kong ink paintings. See Ink: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Stanford, 2018, pp.188-189.Compare with a related Lui Shou-Kwan painting, Journey, ink and colour on paper, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 April 2017, lot 517.