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CHEN DAOFU (1483-1544) The collectors’ seals Liqing fujun yiwu and Kuai Shoushu jia
Mi-style landscape zhencang belong to the important late Qing official and publisher Kuai
Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper, inscribed by the artist Guangdian (蒯光典, 1857-1911) and his nephew Kuai Shoushu (蒯壽
and signed Daofu with two artist’s seals reading Baiyang shanren and 樞, d. 1945). The same seals appear on Zhao Mengfu’s (1254-1322)
Chen Daofu shi with three collectors’ seals reading Liqing fujun yiwu, Twin Pines, Level Distance formerly in the C.C. Wang collection now
Kuai Shoushu jia zhencang and Shicun Lishi Jiacang, with an exterior in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
titleslip by Tang Hong (born 1926) and dated renyin (1962).
72 1/4 x 25 1/2in (183.5 x 64.8cm) Chen Daofu reputedly had two Mi Fei/Mi Youren scrolls--Cloudy
Mountains and Dayao Village--in his family’s collection of ancient
$50,000 - 80,000 paintings. Although most well-known as bird and flower painter,
Chen Daofu’s landscapes-especially his later ones--often follow the
陳道復 仿米芾山水 設色紙本 立軸 Mi Family style. Yet, his innovative use of light and color endow the
painting with a Wu School palette, and his creative brushwork adds a
vibrancy to the composition.

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