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WANG KUN (1877-1946)
Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist with
a poem and signed Zhongshan Wang Kun, with an artist’s seal
Zhongshan and one collector’s seal Shunde Risheng tang cang.
47 1/2 x 23in (120.2 x 58.5cm)
$4,000 - 6,000
汪琨 深山聽泉 設色紙本 立軸
Provenance/來源:
Far East Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
加州舊金山遠東藝術畫廊
Published/出版:
Toda, Toda and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp. Comprehensive Illustrated
Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Third Series, Volume 1: American and
Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013,
A50-209, p. 219
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，A50-209，頁219
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. 370-371
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370-371
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
Wang Kun was from Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province, and used the courtesy
name Zhongshan. He spent most of his life in Shanghai and is
considered one of the most successful Shanghai School painters.
Wang Kun’s paintings suggest his study of the traditional Four Wangs
lineage as well as earlier masters from Song to Yuan dynasties. In
addition to his artistic output, the artist was a teacher and social
activist. In 1909, he founded the Yuyuan shuhua shanhui (Yu Garden
Calligraphy and Painting Charitable Association) with Wu Changshuo
and many others in Shanghai and Beijing. The artists sought to relieve
the nation’s suffering by donating half of the proceeds from their
member’s selling exhibitions.
The collector’s seal belongs to Li Bowen, a well-known Hong Kong
collector and philanthropist. A portion of his painting collection was
published in Zhongguo jindai baijia huaji, Hong Kong, 1962.
汪琨，字仲山，江西婺源人。長居上海，為海派名家之一。其作品多
師法清初四王，遠宗宋元大家。除藝術創作外，汪琨亦活躍於教育及
社會運動。1909年，與吳昌碩等京滬兩地畫家共同成立豫園書畫善
會，以展售書畫所籌之資助賑國內水旱兵災等。
本幅藏印為李博文所有。李氏為香港著名藏家及慈善家。其藏畫部分
發表於1962年香港出版之《中國近代百家畫集》。
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