‘WATER AND RIVER LANDSCAPE’, BY WANG WEIBAO (B. 1942), DATED 1981China. Ink and watercolors on paper, with a silk brocade frame and mounted as a hanging scroll. Finely painted in shades of brown and gray, depicting a river landscape with houses along a shore and a fishing boat on the waterway, with the reflection of mountains in the upper register.Inscriptions: Center left, signed Weibao’ and dated ‘In the Year of Xinyou’ (corresponding to 1981). One seal of the artist, ‘Weibao’. The scroll with an old merchant label, inscribed ‘Wang Weibao (b. 1942), from Jiangjiang’, and another inscribed ‘Hanging scroll with a landscape by Wang Weibao’. Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington, 23 November 1995, lot 423. The Oliver Impey Collection of Modern Paintings, acquired from the above. Oliver Impey (1936-2005) was the President of the Oriental Ceramics Society (1997-2000), a noted curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and a leading authority on the arts of Japan. He studied at the University of Oxford, completing his thesis while working in London at Sotheby’s, where his connoisseurship and remarkable breadth of knowledge began to develop, as well as his intimate knowledge of the art trade and vigilant eye for a bargain. In 1967, he was appointed Assistant Keeper for Japanese Art at the Ashmolean, and was able, as a Sotheby’s colleague put it rather bluntly, to move “straight from the whorehouse to the nunnery”. For nearly four decades, Impey was a tireless acquirer of fine objects, vastly expanding the Museum’s holdings. He designed and raised the funds for a new Japanese Decorative Arts gallery to house these treasures, and he also befriended several generous benefactors who made important donations to the Museum. The respect with which he was held in Japan was marked by the award of the Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize in 1997. His personal collection contained works by major masters from Japan, China, and several other Asian countries, of which many were sold by Christie’s in Hong Kong in the late 2000s. Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and little foxing. Dimensions: Image size 68 x 66.6 cm Wang Weibao (born in 1942) is a Chinese painter from Jinjiang, Fujian Province. He graduated from the high school attached to the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1963. His first work, ‘Catch the Sparrow’, was published in the newspaper Fujian Daily in 1958, followed by many other examples of his work.王維寳（1942- ）《江邊》中國，紙本水墨設色，掛軸。江邊房屋和江上漁船，山巒的倒影，風格清新秀麗，富有筆墨韻味和生活情趣。 款識：辛酉，維寳；鈴印：維寳 來源：南肯辛頓佳士得，1995年11月23日，lot 423；Oliver Impey 現代繪畫收藏購於上述拍賣。Oliver Impey (1936-2005) 曾任東方陶瓷學會會長（1997-2000），牛津阿什莫林博物館著名策展人以及日本藝術領域的權威。他曾就讀於牛津大學，在倫敦蘇富比工作期間完成了論文。在蘇富比，他的鑑賞力和非凡的知識得以發展，以及他對藝術貿易的深入瞭解和對交易的警惕眼光。1967 年，他被任命為阿什莫林日本藝術助理管理員。在近四十年的時間裡，Impey 孜孜不倦地收購精美物品，極大地擴大了博物館的藏品。 他為一個新的日本裝飾藝術藝廊設計並籌集了資金來收藏這些珍品。他還結交了幾位慷慨的捐助者，他們為博物館提供了重要的捐贈。他在日本受到的尊重並於1997 年獲得小山富士夫紀念獎。他的個人收藏包括日本、中國和其他幾個亞洲國家的主要大師的作品，其中許多作品於2000年後期香港佳士得拍賣會上售出。 品相：狀況極好，輕微磨損，輕微褐變。 尺寸：畫面68 x 66.6 釐米 王維寶, 生於1942年，晉江縣人。1963年畢業於廣州美術學院，現中國美術家協會會員，廣東美協理事，廣東畫院一級美術師。 王維寶是活躍在中國畫壇的一位享有高知名度的畫家。他的一幅作品《抓麻雀》1958年被刊登於《福建日報》