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REN YI (1840-1895) AND HU YUAN (1823-1826)
King of the Mountain, 1878
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by Hu Yuan, noting
that Ren Yi painted the tiger, dated wuyin, and signed Hu Yuan, with
two of each artist’s seals, Hu Gongshou yin, Hengyun Shanmin, Ren Yi
si yin, Bonian and Jiehexuan.
93 x 45 1/2in (236 x 115.7cm)
$20,000 - 30,000

任頤、胡遠 猛虎圖 設色紙本 立軸 一八七八年作

Provenance/來源:
Shanghai Duoyunxuan, 31 May 1996, lot 234
上海朵雲軒，1996年5月31日，拍品編號234

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, A50-247, p. 223
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，A50-4247，頁233

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.
268-269
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268-269

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 bond between Ren Yi and Hu Yuan has been closely studied by
Roberta Wue in Art Worlds Artists, Images and Audiences in Late
Nineteenth-Century Shanghai, Hawaii, 2014. Their close relationship
is evinced by a number of other collaborative paintings by the two
artists including Portrait of Gao Yongzhi beneath a Tree (1871) in the
collection of the Shanghai Museum, as well as a portrait of Hu Yuan by
Ren Yi Portrait of the Hengyun Mountain Man as a Travelling Beggar
(1868) in the collection of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

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