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8163
Gu Linshi (1865-1930)
Landscape, 1905
Hanging scroll, ink on silk, inscribed and dated
yisi (1905), signed Gu Linshi, followed by one
seal of the artist and two further seals.
53 1/4 x 14 1/4in (135.2 x 36.2cm)
$2,000 - 3,000

顧麟士 山水 水墨絹本 立軸 一九零五年作

Provenance:
Formerly in a Maine private collection

8164
Huang Yi (1744-1802)
Ink Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink on silk; titled tieshan with
a long inscription, dated Jiaqing wu nian qiu
(autumn of 1800) and signed Qiantang Huang
Yi with one seal of the artist reading Xiaosong
and one collector’s seal.
31 1/2 x 14 1/2in (80 x 11.5cm)
$5,000 - 7,000

黃易 鐵山 山水 水墨絹本 立軸 一八零零年作

Huang Yi was not only a well-regarded
literati artist, but also an active member in
the epigraphy movement, searching for early
remnants of the Chinese written language.
While this painting has many of the aesthetic
characteristics of a traditional ink landscape,
his accompanying inscription reveals the artist’s
empirical interest beyond simply conveying the
landscape. Recording in great detail the early
Buddhist calligraphic inscriptions discovered at
Tieshan in the Tai mountains, the artist adds
an academic element to the standard orthodox
landscape. For Huang Yi, his paintings of
epigraphic discoveries became a vehicle for
sharing his finds with like-minded colleagues. As
a result multiple compositions would often exist
of the same site. The present composition is no
exception. A more sketched rendering (fenben)
of Tieshan--in album leaf format and likely
dating to 1797 when he made the journey--is
in the collection of the Princeton Museum Art
Galleries as part of the album “Seeking Steles
on Mount Tai” (Tai Dai fangbei tu).

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