Null Hispanic travel souvenirs

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Hispanic travel souvenirs

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Hispanic travel souvenirs

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AFRICA Set of three decorative passport-style travel souvenir masks Wood - H.19 - 15 - 13 - 11cm

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XU Beihong 徐悲鴻 (1895-1953) Horse in the mountains Ink and colors on paper Inscribed "Untitled", dated "early autumn 1938 (wuyin)", and signed Beihong with an artist's seal (Donghai wangsun) upper left, framed under glass H. 103.5 cm -W. 49 cm LM Inscription: 無題戊寅新秋悲鴻 Provenance: Purchased in 1947 by Monsieur Henri Maux (1901-1950) in Nanjing. A deposit of 30,000 euros will be required to bid on this lot. Henri Maux (1901-1950) An engineer and diplomat, Henri Maux worked tirelessly during a turbulent period in China and Asia, and was decorated by both China and France. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique des Ponts et Chaussées, Henri Maux was posted to Indochina in 1927, where he oversaw the creation of a railway line (Cambodia) and hydraulic works (Cochinchina). In 1937, he was sent as technical advisor on a Société des Nation mission to the Chinese government, led by Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi). Despite the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in November 1937, he carried out numerous inspections of roads, bridges and railroads, criss-crossing the provinces of southwest China (Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan), between the cities of Hanoi, Hankou, Changsha, Canton, Hong Kong, Guilin, Guiyang, Kunming and Chongqing, and reporting back to the Chinese government. He will even travel from Kunming to Rangoon in Burma. Henri Maux works closely with engineers, local officials and Chinese government ministers, in particular with T.V. Soong (Song Ziwen). He met Chiang Kai-shek in person in the summer of 39 in Chongqing, and returned to France in August. His commitment to this arduous task and his rigorous work, which were much appreciated, earned him the Order of Jade (Caiyu Xunzhang 采玉勳章 ) in 1941 from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Waijiao bu). His Chinese name is Mu He 穆和. Reclaimed by China, he was sent back there even before the end of the Second World War, in March 1945, to work towards a resumption of trade. He rejoined T.V. Soong, then Prime Minister (until 1947), to define China's import and reconstruction needs, then returned to Paris to work on the creation, which took place in November 1945, of the Mission Economique Française d'Extrême-Orient, MEFEO, of which he was appointed head. The MEFEO was based in Shanghai, but Maux made frequent trips to Nanjing, where the government of the Republic of China and its diplomats had resettled: in September 1946, he lunched with the Communist delegation, made up of Zhou Enlai and two deputies. Maux worked to facilitate trade and industrial exchanges between China and France, enabling the delivery of Indochinese rice to China, the development of the first Saigon-Shanghai air link, and the construction of railroad lines. In July 1947, the French government sent him to New York, to assist Mendès-France at the UN, during the negotiations of the UN Economic and Social Committee on the question of the Far East. The UN created the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far-East (ECAFE), and Maux was appointed head of the French delegation. From 1947 to 1950, he attended and spoke at all ECAFE conferences (in the Philippines, India, Australia, Singapore and Bangkok). He brought his family closer together, moving his wife and daughters to a house in Hong Kong at the top of Victoria Peak in early 1948. With the advance of the Communists heralding the fall of the Nationalist government, Maux returned to Shanghai and Nanjing for the last time in January 1949, and his family moved back to France in the summer of 1949. Henri died prematurely in June 1950 in a plane crash in Bahrain on his way back from the ECAFE conference in Bangkok. He was posthumously awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government. Xu Beihong's painting, acquired in Nanjing in 1947 and installed in the Maux's Paris apartment in the summer of 1949, never left the family. It was kept by his widow, Hélène, and then by her youngest daughter, as a memento of their life in Asia and of their husband and father. XU Beihong (1895-1953) Born in Yixing, Jiangsu, he began studying calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting as a child with his father, a painter himself. He soon began working as a teacher and painter. He moved to Shanghai in 1914, where he studied French at Aurore University, before leaving for Japan in 1917 to study Fine Arts. (more information on request)

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