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QI BAISHI (1863-1957) AND LI KUCHAN (1899-1983)
Rice and Mantis/Plantain and Cricket
A set of two fan leaves, mounted for framing, ink and color on paper
Each leaf measures 7 º x 21 º in. (18.5 x 54 cm.)
Rice and Mantis inscribed and signed by Li Kuchan, with two seals
Calligraphy on the reverse, inscribed and signed by Li Kuchan, with
one seal
Dated autumn, renyin year (1962)
Plantain and Cricket inscribed and signed by Li Kuchan, with two seals
and one illegible seal
Calligraphy on the reverse, inscribed and signed by Li Kuchan, with
one seal (2)
$20,000-40,000
Li Kuchan mentions in his inscriptions that Qi Baishi painted the
insects.
齊白石、李苦禪 稻穀螳螂/芭蕉蟋蟀 設色紙本
扇面鏡片兩幅 一九六二年作
《稻穀螳螂》題識：白石翁畫蟲，栩栩如生也，今老學生苦禪
補成之。
鈐印：苦禪、昇龍山人
背面書法題識：
風生白下千林暗，霧塞蒼天百卉殫。
願乞畫家新意匠，只研朱墨作春山。壬寅（1962年）秋月，禪。
鈐印：李氏苦禪
《芭蕉蟋蟀》題識：今見先師白石翁卅年前作草蟲栩栩如生，如
同夢境耳。苦禪補成并記之。
鈐印：苦禪、昇龍山人、一印漫漶
背面書法題識：
床前明月光，疑是地上霜。
舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉。古人詩句，憶而書之。禪。
鈐印：李氏苦禪
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WU CHANGSHUO (1844-1927) 57
Pine
Scroll, mounted for framing, ink on paper
60 ¬ x 27 æ in. (154 x 70.5 cm.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated autumn, eighth month, wuwu year (1918)
Dedicated to Lusou
$40,000-80,000
吳昌碩 墨松 水墨紙本 鏡片 一九一八年作
題識：
筆端颯颯生清風，解衣盤礴吾畫松。
是時春暖凍初解，硯池墨水騰蛟龍。
之而鱗甲動蒼鬣，夭矯直欲飛碧空。
旁觀懼有雷雨至，動色走避呼光童。
棟樑材真出紙上，欲支大廈無良工。
六千歳椿庶可比，壽與天地長無終。
鹿叟先生雅屬，為擬李復堂潑墨法成之。戊午（1918年）秋八
月，安吉吳昌碩。
鈐印：俊卿之印、倉碩、重游泮水
