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SHI LU (1919-1982)
Scenes and Mythologies, 1970
Album of twelve leaves, ink, or ink and color on paper, each leaf
inscribed by the artist, many of the leaves dated 1970, with the artist’s
distinctive painted seals.
9 5/8 x 16 1/8in (24.5 x 40.5cm), each leaf
$40,000 - 60,000
石魯 雜畫 水墨或水墨設色紙本 册頁十二開 一九七〇年作
Provenance/來源:
Duoyunxuan Shanghai, 5 June 1999, lot 187
上海朵雲軒, 1999年6月5日,拍品編號187
Published/出版:
Toda, Teisuke and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp. Comprehensive Illustrated
Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Third Series, Volume 1: American and
Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013,
A50-272, p. 227
戶田禎佑、小川裕充,《中國繪畫總合圖錄》三編,第一卷,東京大
學出版會,東京,2013年,A50-272,頁227
Little, Stephen, and J. May Lee Barrett. New Songs on Ancient Tunes:
19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard
Fabian Collection, Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts,
2007, pp. 600-603
Little, Stephen, J. May Lee Barrett,《古調新歌:費立哲神父珍藏十九
及二十世紀中國書畫》,檀香山藝術博物館,夏威夷,
2007年,頁600-603
Exhibited/展覽:
New Songs on Ancient Tunes, Honolulu Art Academy, Honolulu,
Hawaii, August 30-October 28, 2007
《古調新歌:費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》,檀香山藝
術博物館,夏威夷,2007年8月30日至10月28日
The successful integration of calligraphic text and image has been
a distinguishing feature of Chinese painting for nearly a millennium,
although Shi Lu’s approach is visually striking and boldly innovative.
Using Chinese characters together with letters from the Western
alphabet, the artist tightly enmeshes his words within the composition,
their forms arising from the contours and patterns of the very
landscape. According to Shi Lu’s inscriptions, the inspiration for each
leaf in this fabulous album is wide-ranging, from Song and Ming
dynasty painting, to Chinese literature, to the artist’s travels in Tibet,
Egypt, Asia and North America.
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