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ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Pine Rock on Huangshan, 1969
Ink and color on paper, hanging scroll, inscribed with a poetic quatrain,
dated wushiba nian jiyou liu yue (1969, sixth month), titled Huangshan
Songshi and signed Yuan Weng with four artist's seals reading Zhang
Yuan, sanqian Daqian, Mojie Shanyuan and Daqian shi jie.
35 x 24in (89.2 x 61cm)

US$100,000 - 120,000

張大千 黄山松石圖 設色紙本 立軸 一九六九年作

Provenance
Collection of Lim Ying Yun (1914-2009), and thereafter by descent
Having traveled the world and resided in such diverse locations as
Shanghai, Argentina, Brazil, Carmel and Monterey in California, and
Taipei, Taiwan, Zhang Daqian remained proud throughout his life of
having visited Mount Huang three times in 1927, 1931, and 1936,
reaching its highest peak each time. Zhang painted and composed
poems about Huangshan's famous ocean of clouds, mountain peaks,
and gnarled pine trees many times in his long career.
The present lot is dated to June 1969, the final year of Zhang Daqian's
residing in his home in Mogi, near Sao Paulo, Brazil. Presenting
a scholar and his young attendant beneath towering rocks and a
spreading pine tree, this unusual composition shows a springtime
Huangshan landscape, with the artist perhaps reminiscing about his
1927 and 1931 visits during the spring and early summer. The poem
inscribed here by the artist 三作黄山絶頂行，廿年烟雾黯晴明。平生
幾兩秋風屐，塵蠟苔痕夢裏情 recounts his three visits to Huangshan,
as well as his intense longing for this magnificent landscape of his
homeland.

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