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AFTER SHITAO (1642-AFTER 1707)
Plum Blossoms on a Cliff
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, bearing an inscription
and a signature of Shitao, with four seals, faben
fawuchang, xia zun zhe, gaomangzi ji, zanzhi shishixun
Achang, three collector’s seals Cheng Bofen de miji
zhiyin (Cheng Qi, 1911-1988), kean jianshang, wenqing
ceng cang, the wooden box with an inscription by
Nagao Uzan written inside of the cover, dated xinwei
year (1931), followed by Changwei Jia yin (seal of
Nagao) and Yushan (Uzan).
43 1/4 x 19 7/8in (109.5 x 50.5cm)
$10,000 - 15,000

(仿) 石濤 梅花圖 水墨紙本 立軸

Provenance
Christie’s New York, 30 November 1984, lot 747
A Southern California Collection

來源
紐約佳士得，1984年11月30日，拍品編號747
南加州私人珍藏

Nagao Uzan (Jia Changwei, 1864-1942), was a
Kansai-based sinologist, whose specialty was Chinese
paintings and calligraphy. Nagao worked for Shanghai
Shangwu Yinshuguan (The Commercial Press) in
1903-1914 and was one of the founding Japanese
members of the Xiling Yinshe. While in China he
befriended Wu Changshuo and Zheng Xiaoxu, and
later supported exhibitions of Wang Zhen in Japan.
Returning to Japan, Nagao authored books of
Chinese art and also brokered the sale of paintings
from Luo Zhenyu’s collection when Luo was residing
in Kyoto. Nagao’s own collection is currently at the
Kyoto National Museum. See Hong Zaixin, “Chinese
art collecting and the Japanese market” in Joshua
Fogel ed. The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art,
Berkeley, 2013.

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