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PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN 美國私人收藏 (LOT 864)

A Fragrance for All Seasons
坐擁羣花度歲寒

Yun Shouping (1633-1690), style name Nantian, 惲壽平，字南田，清初名家，寫沒骨花卉上承北宋徐崇嗣傳統技法，發展創造色彩
was one of the great masters of the 17th Century 鮮明的個人風格，自謂得花卉之形外，又於筆墨不到處究心神韻，故能卓立群峰之
and is renowned for his achievements in poetry, 外。
calligraphy and painting in the history of Chinese 《國色擁翠》上畫家自題一詩：蕊珠宮裏無雙鬢，晝錦堂前第一人。笑問芳心深幾
art. Yun’s greatest contribution to Chinese Painting 許，卻能容受半天春。
was the development of a new school of mogu
(boneless) – a form of painting using pigments 此詩亦見於《花卉冊》之《牡丹圖》一頁（參考圖片1），現藏日本大阪市立美術
directly to paint flowers and plants, an approach 館，阿部房次郎藏。
that tried to express art without rigidly defined 惲壽平的自作詩多以花擬人，並善用文學典故，將花卉比喻為仙姬或神女，體現南
outlines and forms. This motif experienced a 田的審美理想，也反映他不凡的藝術修養。所作
resurgence through Yun Shouping’s works and 題畫詩歌有《甌香館集》傳世。
school of art.
此幅《國色擁翠》沒註年代，印章三方，右上角
As a poet and a calligrapher, Yun Shouping liked to 鈐有《寄岳雲》，查畫家印章年譜，1684年《枯
inscribe his paintings. The poem on this painting 木竹石圖》及1686年《花卉冊》始載此章，此畫
was also found in the Peony album leaf (Ref. 1), in 當作於1680年代，畫家50歲後。1688年《國香春
the Abe Fusajiro Collection, Osaka City Museum 霽圖》（參考圖片2），為王南屏家族收藏，畫
of Fine Arts. His self-composed poems mostly use 上也鈐有《寄岳雲》一印，於2021年11月佳士得
flowers to personify people and make good use of 拍出，成交價創畫家作品歷史紀錄。
literary allusions, comparing flowers to fairies or
goddesses, which reflects the artist’s aesthetic ideals
and extraordinary artistic accomplishment.

Peonies and Rock was not dated. According to the
seal jiyueyun stamped on the upper right corner, the
painting would have been created after the 1680s,
when the artist was at least 50 years old. The same
seal was found in The Fragrance of a Nation in Clearing
Spring (Ref. 2), from the Wong Nan-ping Family
Collection, which was sold in Christie’s 2021
Autumn Sale at a record-breaking price. Ref.1 參考圖片1 Ref. 2 參考圖片2

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YUN SHOUPING (1633-1690)
Peonies and Rock
Scroll, mounted on wood board and framed, ink and colour on silk
155 x 92 cm. (61 x 36 º in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with three seals of the artist

HK$2,200,000-2,800,000 US$290,000-360,000
清 惲壽平 國色擁翠 設色絹本 木板鏡框

題識： 蕊珠宮裏無雙鬢，晝錦堂前第一人。
笑問芳心深幾許，卻能容受半天春。
甌香館賦色。壽平。
鈐印： 惲壽平印、正叔、寄岳雲

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