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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION 日本私人收藏
(LOTS 1351-1352)

1352 US$9,100-12,000

LIANG QICHAO (1873-1929)

Seven-Syllabic Poem in Clerical Script

Hanging scroll, ink on paper
132 x 31 cm. (52 x 12 º in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated third month, bingyin year (1926)

HK$70,000-90,000

梁啟超 隸書七言詩 水墨紙本 立軸 一九二六年作

題識：碧 瓦樓頭繡幕遮，赤闌橋外綠溪斜，
無風楊柳漫天絮，不雨棠梨滿地花。
丙寅（1926年）三月。梁啟超。

鈐印：新會梁啟超印、任公四十五歲以後所作

1353

QI BAISHI (1863-1957)

Spring Scenery

Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
152.4 x 70 cm. (60 x 27 Ω in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dedicated to Leng’an (Hu Peiheng, 1892-1965)
Frontispiece by Hu Tuo:
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on paper
19 x 82.5 cm. (7 Ω x 32 Ω in.)
Signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated spring, gengwu year (1990)

PROVENANCE:

Lot 753, 28 May 2010, Fine Chinese Modern Paintings, Christie’s Hong Kong.

LITERATURE:

Masterpiece of Painting by Qi Baishi, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House,
Beijing, 1990, p.59.
The Collected Works of Qi Baishi Vol. III, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing
House, 1996, pl.54.

NOTE:

Qi Baishi was an admirer of Xu Wei, Bada Shanren and Shitao. He wrote,
“As for Qingteng (Xu Wei), Xuege (Bada Shanren), Dadizhi (Shitao),
people may just dismiss their work, or even see it as insignificant. I stand
just outside their doors, pining for their works; even if I am hungry, I feel
joy in the expectation of seeing their masterpieces.” One can observe his
adoration towards the three painters despite the fact that their works had
not yet received wider acceptance by the populace. Qi’s landscape painting
emulates that of Shitao, through simple strokes and by using the perception
of depth to emphasise the import and to eclipse the trivial. Qi aims to
recreate scenes that lie between likeness and unlikeness, harkening back to
a poem of Shitao:

Like Dong Yuan, like Mi Fu,
between likeness and unlikeness,
Painters are like autumn mountains after rain,
cleansing the mountains and giving them new life.
From present painters to old masters,
who innovates and who impersonates?
Weave through paintings and through time,
and let the strength of one’s brush provide the answer.

HK$4,000,000-5,000,000 US$510,000-650,000

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