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ᄁ QI BAISHI (1864-1957)
ͣ Flowers and Fruits
ͩ ink and colour on paper, set of four, hanging
scroll
signed, inscribed, with 9 seals of the artist
(1864-1957)
Inscription:
Peaches:

When you paint meticulously, your brushwork will be restrained
and your colour application is unlikely to be quaintly tasteful. It is
a pity that Qingteng Laoren [Xu Wei], Li Futang [Li Shan], Meng
Litang [Meng Jinyi], and many of our forefathers never heard this.
Remarked by Azhi.
Loquats and Plantain Lilies:
When my contemporaries paint, they distinguish the leaves from
the branches for the benefit of the ordinary viewer. I want to confuse
matters, and paint differently from them. Baishi Laoren.
Pomegranates and Plumed Cockscombs:
Artists who displayed mannered affectations in paintings disgrace
the true masters, and petty artisans spend all their time to flatter
ignoramus. There are only a few who sell paintings in Beijing that I
do not despise. Remarked by Binsheng.

Grapes:
Qingteng Laoren [Xu Wei], Zhu Xuege [Bada Shanren], and
Dadizi [Shi Tao] were unmatched in their paintings of grapes. Lao
Ping is not immitating them.
EXHIBITED
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Qi Baishi: Painting, Calligraphy, and
Seal, 1973
LITERATURE
Qi Baishi: Painting, Calligraphy, and Seal, Hong Kong Museum of
Art, 1973, pl.6-9
Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, issue 204, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly
Publishing House, Taipei, February, 1988, p.63
PROVENANCE
Collection of Zhupingan Guan.
Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Chinese Paintings, 18 January 1988, lot 200.

each 283.8 x 54.2 cm 111¾ x 21⅜ in. (4)

HK$ 18,000,000-30,000,000
US$ 2,300,000-3,830,000

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