‘PINE TREES’, BY SUN SONG (1882-1962), DATED 1924China. Ink on paper. With a silk brocade frame and mounted as a hanging scroll. Boldly painted with vivid brushstrokes, depicting two pines with gnarled branches issuing needles.Inscriptions: Upper right, signed ‘Sun Song’, dated ‘In the Spring of the Year of Jiazi’ (corresponding to 1924), and inscribed ‘iron dragon’. One seal of the artist. Provenance: The Oliver Impey Collection of Modern Paintings. 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: Condition commensurate with age, showing some old wear, creasing, foxing, water stains, and minimal losses.Dimensions: 148.5 x 39.5 cm image size, and 203 x 51.3 cm total sizeSun Song (1882-1962), style name Youzhi, was a Chinese painter from Yinxian in Zhejiang. He was a student of Wu Changshuo (1844-1927) and a noted collector.孫松(1882-1962)《鐵虯》，1924年 中國，紙本水墨，掛軸。筆法大膽生動，松樹遒健如龍。 款識：鐵虯，甲子年春孫松；鈴印：孫松之印 來源：Oliver Impey 現代繪畫收藏。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：狀況良好，一些磨損、摺痕、起皺、水漬。 尺寸：畫面148.5 x 39.5釐米, 總203 x 51.3釐米 孫松 (1882-1962), 字友之，浙江鄞縣人，擅花卉。是吳昌碩(1844-1927)弟子中成就較大的，同時也是一位知名收藏家。