A painting by Lee Man Fong was sold for the hammer price of €402.000,- in our latest Art & Antiques auction. Not only is this one of the highest hammer prices for a painting by Lee Man Fong, it also is the highest amount ever realised by our auction house.
The painting in question is ‘Eight Doves’ by Lee Man Fong (1913-1988), who was a court painter for the Indonesian president Sukarno and lived and worked in The Netherlands from 1946 until 1952. The painting is signed, titled and dated 1947 in Chinese characters ‘Made in the fall of the Ding Hai year, by the Han Tang lake travelling towards the top of a dream’.