THE LARRY LUCAS COLLECTION OF ASIAN WORKS OF ARTLARRY LUCAS 亞洲藝術收藏Lots 20 to 76Mr Larry Lucas, a British-born businessman, started collecting Asian Art as a university student in the late 1960s in Cambridge. As the co-founder of the Asian Art Institute of Australia, Larry has organised various exhibitions and lectures since 2008, providing platforms for collectors, artists, researchers and scholars, and promoting knowledge and appreciation of Asian art.Larry Lucas 先生出生於英國，早於上世紀六十年代劍橋求學時，即熱衷收藏，至今近半世紀。2008年在悉尼於三五志趣相投的好友成立澳大利亞亞洲藝術協會，多年來舉辦講座、展覽，為當地乃至世界收藏同好、藝術家及學者提供交流平台。














Two carved wooden figures of Guanyin


19th centuryone figure accompanied by an inscribed note dated to the 25th day of the 12th month of the eighth year of the Tongzhi reign (early 1870), 28.9cm high (2).
|Provenance:Apsara Asian Art, Sydney, 2009十九世紀　木雕觀音坐像一組兩件其一附據條，款「大清國湖南省寶慶府新化縣永寧一都地名窩山祀祭洞天廟王九像（余文略）同治八年己巳（1870年初）歲十二月廿五日謹具」傳承：悉尼 Apsara 亞洲藝術， 2009年