New York (CNS) – Chinese American collector Kwong Lum decided to donate a Chinese antique to each of China's 31 provinces, including porcelain enamelware and pastel collections, he told reporters on November 22.
Meanwhile, an art museum named after Kwong Lum is being constructed in Jiangmen county in South China's Guangdong province and is scheduled to open to the public next year. It will feature 600 pieces donated from Lum's private collection worth over 2 billion yuan.
Born in 1936 in Macao, Kwong Lum, now a famous Chinese American art collector, actually started collecting at the age of six, with a work by Song dynasty calligrapher Huang Tingjian. Lum moved to New York in the 1960s.
Lum has assembled entire series of works representing the art of Canada, France, the UK, the US, Japan and Hong Kong, for which he is known as the "crazy collector" among collectors.
