LU SHOUKUN (Lui Shou Kwan, 1919 – 1975). Dawn on the Peak, ink and colour on paper, Chinese painting mounted on silk, 19.5 x 16cm. Provenance: from the collection of Margaret Cannon (1935 - 2017), the Runbold Gallery, 1962. Exhibited: watercolours by LUI SHOU KWAN, the Runbold Gallery, 25 February – 29 March 1962. 呂壽琨 款識：辛丑冬。呂壽琨鑒 藏印：「呂壽琨印」 来源：瑪格麗特·坎農（1935年-2017年）收藏。 展览：《呂壽寬水彩》，1962年2月25日至3月29日，Runbold畫廊。 The story of how these works ending up in a UK private collection is one which elucidates some of factors that underpinned the development of Chinese ink painting across the 20th Century. Born in Guangzhou, China, Lui moved to Hong Kong in 1948. In Hong Kong he became the founder of the Hong Kong New Ink Movement which made huge innovations within the field of contemporary ink painting alongside what was happening in mainland China and Taiwan. Because of the artistic distance that developed between these three artistic centres it is only in recent years has the contribution and status of Lui been carefully re-written in the context of ink painting as a whole. During the 1960s one of the ways that his reputation was built was through an intensive progamme of international exhibition much of it arranged by Major T. Geoffrey Barker (1912-1980). This included solo exhibitions including at the Runbold Gallery and culminated in a major Loan Exhibition of Modern Chinese Painting at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1967 co-organised by Barker and Professor Michael Sullivan (1916-2013). For more details see Huang Yingling, ‘Establishing the Reputation of Lui Shou Kwan in Britain in the 1960s’, Arts of Asia, January 2018, pp 42-49.