Ink painting on paper. Hanging scroll, brocade mounting.
Signed: On the 1st of April, 1940, I arrived in Darjeeling under the Himalaya mountains. Three days later I painted this bamboo, Beihong.
Seal: Donghai Wang Sun.
Inscription: To Mr. Lauda, Beihong, 1951.
Seal: Xu Beihong.
Inscription on the reverse: Zhu (Bamboo). A Monsieur Jan Lauda souvenir de Ju Peon 1951.
Provenance: Collection of Czech sculptor Jan Lauda.
Literature: Xu Beihong nianpu, Taibei: Yishujia chubanshe, page 231.