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Zhang Daqian (1899-1983)
Scholar in Landscape with Lone Pine
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; inscribed and signed Daqian
Jushi Yuan with two artist’s seals reading Daqian da li and Zhang Yuan.
31 1/2 x 12in (80 x 30.5cm)
$12,000 - 15,000
張大千 松嶽高士 設色紙本 立軸
Provenance
private collection, San Francisco
Note
While this landscape is undated, the restrained style, together with the
rather square calligraphy style, would argue for an early date of the
late 1920s to mid-1930s. The artist’s inscription mentions following the
painting styles of Dafeng (Zhang Feng 張風, active 1628-1662) and
Dadi (Shitao 石濤, 1641-1707). The late Ming painter Zhang Feng was
much admired by Zhang Daqian for his “strength and harmony.” As
noted by Shen F. C. Fu, Daqian would acknowledge the influence of
“Dafeng” when painting a landscape with small figures or a scholar in
a cursory landscape with a single pine. See Shen F. C. Fu, Challenging
the Past: the Paintings of Chang Dai-chien, Smithsonian Institution,
1991, pp. 96-98.

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