ARTIST(s): Song Meiling 宋美齡 (Mar 5, 1897 - Oct 23, 2003) Hanging scroll, ink on silk Scroll: Length: 70" x Width: 16" Painting: Length: 51 1/2" x Width: 13" Signed/Seal(s): 1 artist seal 1 ???seal Dated in the New Years of Minguo 33 (1944) Gift for General Yu Bindong. PROVENANCE: Estate Collections of GENERAL YU BINDONG 俞濱東 (1903-1990) (AKA: 天宾) R.O.C. Presidential Palace Third Class of Major Generals, Director of Assistant Commissioner, Official bodyguard, Security guard brigade commander of the building controls, the affairs of state, presidential palace Internal business, printing and engraving branch. For more information about General Yu Bingdong 俞濱東, please follow this link: www.eden-galleries.com/yubindong/ Video Documentation on Youtube: https://youtu.be/W_mn9iHjgMY Video Documentation on Youku (China): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUxMzY4NzcwOA==.html The collections of General Yu Bingdong 俞濱東 presented and offered up to auctions: ON DAY-1: From Lot-125 through Lot-152, and continued from Lot-269 through Lot-296. ON DAY-2: from Lot-448 through Lot-487, and continued from Lot-620 through Lot-760. LOT NOTES: Soong Mei-ling or Soong May-ling, Song Meiling 宋美齡 (March 5, 1897-October 23, 2003); also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. Soong played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and the leader of the Republic of China. She was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary and active positions, including chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the Second Sino-Japanese War she rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and in 1942 conducted a speaking tour of the United States to gain support. She was also the youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, and the only first lady during World War II who lived into the 21st century. Soong spent the rest of her life in a Gracie Square apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan owned by her niece. An open house viewing of the estate drew many Taiwanese expatriates. When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York. Her life extended into three centuries.