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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CANADIAN COLLECTION
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XU SHICHANG (1855-1939) 加拿大私人珍藏
Calligraphy after Su Shi
徐世昌
Signature and three seals of the artist, dated bingchen year (1916)
Colophon by Xu Yuan (1880-date of death unknown) dated bingzi year (1936) 書法
with one seal of the artist 徐世昌題識：(文不錄)
Handscroll, ink on paper
11º x 201¿ in. (29.5 x 510.9 cm.) 徐世昌款識：丙辰冬十一月。梧青姪女屬臨東坡書，退耕老人。
徐世昌鈐印：天遠樓、徐世昌印、菊人長壽
£8,000-12,000 US$10,000-15,000
€9,100-14,000 徐沅題識：(文不錄)
徐沅款識：丙子開冬姜盦徐沅。
PROVENANCE:
Gifted to the maternal grandmother of the present owner, thence by descent 徐沅鈐印：徐沅之印
within the family. 水墨紙本 手卷 一九一六年作
Xu Shichang was born in Anhui province, into a family originally from Tianjin. 來源:
Xu served as President of the Republic of China from 10 October 1918 until 2 徐世昌一九一六年贈予現藏家外祖母，家傳至今。
June 1922, having previously held senior ofical posts at the end of the Qing
dynasty. His calligraphy followed a model established by eleventh century 徐世昌，字菊人，號弢齊，別署水竹村人，天津人。青季翰林，官至東三省總
scholar aesthete Su Shi (1037-1101), with minor variations. Xu cites Su as 督，體仁閣大學士。辛亥革命後，於一九一八年曾任大總統。工山水，頗清秀。
the explicit model for this work. Xu was also a skilled landscape painter and 書宗蘇軾，略變其體。能詩，設晚晴簃詩社，羅致詩友，編印清詩匯。有歸雲樓
capable poet. 題畫詩集，成於一九二四年。「風園書友錄」。
節錄自《中國美術家人名辭典》,第700頁

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